Setting up Kismet.conf with Broadcom Bcm4311

[kenchi]

does anyone know how to set kismet.conf file to work with Broadcom card ?

:o

[archangel.amael]

does anyone know how to set kismet.conf file to work with Broadcom card ?

:o

a quick check of http://www.kismetwireless.net/documentation.shtml
will give you the answer to your question!
Try to search a bit next time.
:)

[ats1080]

open up the conf file from /usr/local/etc/kismet.conf, find "# enablesources=prismsource,ciscosource" and paste in this under it: source=bcm43xx,eth1,eth1

although kismet works for me, bcm43xx is still pretty buggy and id recommend a different card. kismet is pretty much the only thing that works for me.

[kenchi]

what card d o you have? bcm4311 Broadcom also?

[ats1080]

yup. i usually just use my wusb54g adapter though, it seems more stable and gives me less problems.

[krusau]

I have the same card:

kismet works fine when you use the kismet.conf change mentioned earlier.

before using aircrack/dump suite, remember to put the card in monitor mode

iwconfig eth1 mode Monitor channel <channel # you are interested in>

and also, for aireplay-ng, remember to use -x 10

since this internal wifi card seems to only handle about 10 packets per second for injection

[throat]

# YOU MUST CHANGE THIS TO BE THE SOURCE YOU WANT TO USE
#source=madwifi_ag,wifi0,madwifi
#source=acx100,wlan0,acx
#source=orinoco,eth2,hermes1
#source=rt8180,wlan0,Realtek
#source=prism54g,eth1,PrismGT
#source=hostap,wlan0,Prism2
#source=wlanng,wlan0,Prism2
#source=ipw2100,eth1,Centrino_b
#source=ipw2200,eth1,Centrino_g
#source=rt2500,ra0,Ralink_g
#source=rt2500,rausb0,Ralink_g
#source=kismet_drone,192.168.2.252:3501,kismet_dro ne

I missed any?

[abitaz]

I have the Broadcom as one of my cards. Airodump-ng works fine with it. The only issue is that the power is shown as 0 or -1, otherwise it works. Note that on my system the card is eth0, not eth1. May be the same by you. I have found that I can inject at 14 packets per second with aireplay-ng, and it went fine. Don't know if all cards will be the same. Good luck.

[DjTaz]

I think you missed the Atheros chipset ? wifi1 ath0 ?

but im not really a linux person so i could be making an ass of myself once again.

[merlin051]

Nah he got it ;)

# YOU MUST CHANGE THIS TO BE THE SOURCE YOU WANT TO USE
#source=madwifi_ag,wifi0,madwifi
#source=acx100,wlan0,acx
#source=orinoco,eth2,hermes1
#source=rt8180,wlan0,Realtek
#source=prism54g,eth1,PrismGT
#source=hostap,wlan0,Prism2
#source=wlanng,wlan0,Prism2
#source=ipw2100,eth1,Centrino_b
#source=ipw2200,eth1,Centrino_g
#source=rt2500,ra0,Ralink_g
#source=rt2500,rausb0,Ralink_g
#source=kismet_drone,192.168.2.252:3501,kismet_dro ne

I missed any?

[dwjs1974]

Chipsets known to NOT WORK:
Broadcom - No linux drivers, only useable with ndiswrapper or
linuxant wrappers around windows drivers.
*** UPDATE ***
See the bcm43xx source type entry. There are
experimental reverse-engineered drivers which have
monitor mode support now under Linux! If they don't
work, however, then too bad.

however
bcm43xx Broadcom Linux BCM43XX
(text removed uable to post), kernel
Linux native broadcom drivers incorporated into modern
kernels.

b43 Broadcom Linux
B43 broadcom drivers for current Broadcom devices in
Linux kernels

b43legacy Broadcom Linux
B43 broadcom drivers for legacy Broadcom devices in
Linux kernels

This informationis available in the readme files.

Now i use madwifi drivers

The line for source should read something like

# Sources are defined as:
# source=sourcetype,interface,name[,initialchannel]
# Source types and required drivers are listed in the README under the
# CAPTURE SOURCES section.
# The initial channel is optional, if hopping is not enabled it can be used
# to set the channel the interface listens on.
# YOU MUST CHANGE THIS TO BE THE SOURCE YOU WANT TO USE
source=madwifing_g,wifi0,1(my config Atheros chipset)
source=bcm43xx,wlan,1
source=b43,wlan,1
source=b43legacy,wlan,1 (wlan should be whatever your interface name is)

Hope this helps....