[kismac] Re: Wireless Equipment
- From: John Warren <xaive1@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: kismac@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 08:46:09 -0800
Wow, complete safe mode worked for me. Passive scanning is now
possible again with my Airport Extreme. Thanks for that tip.
I'd really like to be able to do some testing for the developers if
they want it. If there is anything that you guys want me to do to
help out, let me know.
On 2/7/06, Robin L Darroch <robin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> PS to my last e-mail: I've managed to get passive scanning with
> Airport Extreme working a couple of times, but only after a clean
> boot with nothing else running.
>
> First: complete safe boot (shift key from the startup chime all the
> way through login)
> - logged in
> - ran KisMAC
> - passive mode worked.
>
> Second: normal boot, login items disabled (shift key after entering
> password only)
> - logged in
> - Airport operating normally (connected to local network)
> - ran KisMac
> - passive mode worked
> - quit KisMAC
> - airport card lost by system (unable to use for networking)
> - ran KisMAC again
> - passive mode worked again
> - quit KisMAC
> - airport card restored to normal operation
> - ran a couple of login items (Palm Desktop Utility, @-time)
> - ran KisMAC again
> - unable to load driver
> - Airport card lost by system
>
> Third: normal boot, login items disabled (as above)
> - logged in
> - airport operating normally
> - ran KisMAC
> - unable to load driver
> - Airport card lost by system
>
> ... so all in all, extremely unreliable (and kills the airport until
> next reboot when it fails), but I think I could probably (if it was
> worth it to me) get it to work every time by preceding it with a safe
> mode reboot. It's not worth the hassle, since I actually like to use
> my computer for other things, so for now I'll keep using the DWL-122.
>
> Cheers,
> Robin
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