Originally Posted by walts

I just got Kismet working and want to share the steps I took to get there.
To begin with this is a brand new N800, which came with OS2007 installed. The first thing I did was to flash OS2008, reported as version 2.2007.50-2 in "About Product"

I found a Kismet repository at http://eko.one.pl/maemo. This has both mistral and bora distributions; I chose mistral. My first attempt at installing it failed with the message that ncurses-base was missing.

Thanks to the excellent index at http://gronmayer.com/it/index.php?la...tem=maemo4#134 I found the Maemo Chinook repository at http://repository.maemo.org and installed ncurses-base from there.

Now Kismet works as expected (running as root). The files are saved on the external sd card, /media/mmc1 although it didn't seem to bother it if the card was taken out. Kismet ran for over 30 minutes, including times when the screen went to sleep, with no problems.

The one issue, that Kismet warns you about, is that the wi-fi card is inoperative when Kismet exits. everything looks normal - the icon shows a connection, ifconfig looks normal, but the interface can't communicate with the outside world. On the Zaurua (running Angstrom) I was able to restart the card using the following script:

Code:

ifdown wlan0
pccardctl eject 1
pccardctl insert
ifup wlan0

but so far I haven't found pccardctl (or the older cardctl) anywhere
so the workaround for now is

Code:

shutdown -r now

If anyone has any suggestions about restarting the wifi interface, I'd love to hear them.

Walt