Re: [Ethereal-users] Ethereal + kismet + orinoco

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 01:36:10AM -0500, Nathaniel wrote:
>  I have successfully set up kismet to work with my orinoco based card
> after a little bit of driver patching.  However, when I try to capture
> packets directly from the wireless interface, all I get are SLL packets,
> and I get a console error saying something like: "arptype 802 not
> supportted by libpcap - falling back to linux cooked socket".  I read
> some of the Ethereal faqs and it says that capturing raw 802.11 packets
> on an orinoco card is supported but that I must patch libpcap with some
> patches writen by Solomon Peachy....?

No, what the FAQ:

	http://www.ethereal.com/faq.html#q5.22

says is

	Those require either Solomon's patch to libpcap 0.7.1 (see his
	`libpcap-0.7.1-prism.diff' file, or his RPMs of that version of
	libpcap), or the current CVS version of libpcap, which includes
		  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
	his patch (download it from the `Current Tar files' section of
	^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
	the tcpdump.org Web site).
	^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

although if you don't want to just download the current version, a
Google search for "libpcap-0.7.1-prism.diff" shows

	http://www.shaftnet.org/~pizza/software/

as the first hit, and that page has a link to the patch.