[kismac] Re: a bug i may have found

  • From: Michael Rossberg <mick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: kismac@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 20:03:29 +0200

hey,

> Ok, i have a linksys WPC11v3 card, which i installed the wirelessdriver
> driver for, then i installed kismac with patch. I then changed the MAC
> on the card... This caused an instant OS problem requiring a reboot....
> Any time I inserted the card, with new MAC, I would instantly be forced
> to do a hard reboot... I solved this by running kismac, and hten
> inserting the card, and changing the mac to the factory setting. Worked
> just fine. I was able to recreate the problem using variations of
> this.. any time OSX tried to load the card, the comp required a hard
> reboot... At no time durring this was i able to "re-inject" packets...
> I got a " i am not happy" message that appeared that only one card was
> seen by kismac......

unfortunately i dont own a prism 2.5 card, so that i can test you 
configuration. is there anybody who can confirm this problem?
for packet injection set your driver to viha.

> I am running kismac 0.05b, ( same results under what ever is listed as
> stable on maintaners site... i move to "untested" to see if this has
> been addressed)
>
> airport card (not extreme)
>
> OS 10.2.6
>
> linksys WPC11v3 card ( supposedly a prism2 card, and seems to behave
> like one in most respects)
>
> towards the end of this, i managed to cause a reboot to be needed while
> "wirelessMAC" was running... now i cannot run the program to change the
> mac to factory...... I get a " program terminated" error... even after
> i removed, reinstalled the program.....

can you send me a log of this crash?

mick


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