I've been using Kismet since it's first release. It rocks....i've run it on RH 7.0 and up to RH 8.0 so far. I have not gone to RH 9, since I've been hearing of 9 breaking some applications and being dificult to install some apps. I use a Cisco 350 wireless card. RH 8 supports the Cisco card without having to do any changes. RH7.X had to tweak and copy aironet drivers around to get it to work with the Cisco card. kismet also supports gpsmap, which allows you to plot your war driving onto a map, as long as you have a gps device to hook up to your laptop.

Originally posted here by thehorse13
Networker,

Yeah, as soon as I *do* get it to work I will be able to write a serious tutorial as I have gone down a number of different paths trying to get this thing running - LOL.

T2 - Yeah buddy, all I have access to is Cisco Aironet cards which I know do not support channel hopping with this program and of course I have an Orinoco gold card which to date has only been flakey at best.

Thanks for the responses.
The cisco card already does a sort of "hopping". once you put it in kismet_monitor mode, then the cisco card will listen on all channels. you don't have to run kismet_hopper to do that. If you are using the prism2 or orinoco cards then you have to run kismet_hopper in order to get it to span all channels. The cisco card works fine in my setup. I've used both cisco and prism2 chipsets in my laptop without any problems.


By the way here is a link to kismet wireless www.kismetwireless.net