[kismac] Re: a bug i may have found

  • From: Chapin's Bulk <chapinsbulk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: kismac@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 08:41:44 -0500

It does.





On Wednesday, July 9, 2003, at 02:39  AM, N. Karras wrote:

> First find out if it still does it with Kismac not running.
>
> ----- Original Message -----=20
> From: "Chapin's Bulk" <chapinsbulk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <kismac@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "Jeff Chapin" <chapinj@xxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 8:41 AM
> Subject: [kismac] a bug i may have found
>
>
>> Ok, i have a linksys WPC11v3 card, which i installed the =
> wirelessdriver=20
>> driver for, then i installed kismac with patch. I then changed the 
>> MAC =
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>> on the card... This caused an instant OS problem requiring a =
> reboot....=20
>> Any time I inserted the card, with new MAC, I would instantly be =
> forced=20
>> to do a hard reboot... I solved this by running kismac, and hten=20
>> inserting the card, and changing the mac to the factory setting. =
> Worked=20
>> just fine. I was able to recreate the problem using variations of=20
>> this.. any time OSX tried to load the card, the comp required a 
>> hard=20
>> reboot... At no time durring this was i able to "re-inject" 
>> packets... =
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>> I got a " i am not happy" message that appeared that only one card 
>> was =
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>> seen by kismac......
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>> I am running kismac 0.05b, ( same results under what ever is listed 
>> as =
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>> stable on maintaners site... i move to "untested" to see if this 
>> has=20
>> been addressed)
>> =20
>> airport card (not extreme)
>> =20
>> OS 10.2.6
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>> linksys WPC11v3 card ( supposedly a prism2 card, and seems to 
>> behave=20
>> like one in most respects)
>> =20
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>> towards the end of this, i managed to cause a reboot to be needed =
> while=20
>> "wirelessMAC" was running... now i cannot run the program to change =
> the=20
>> mac to factory...... I get a " program terminated" error... even 
>> after =
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>> i removed, reinstalled the program.....
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>> Thanks for the GREAT work on this project... Let me know if i can 
>> help =
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>> in any way....
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>> jeff chapin
>> =20
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