After dealing with some bug reports from Kismet users, we finally narrowed down a weird problem to an interaction with NetworkManager. It appears that part of doing a scan for joinable networks changes the mode of a wireless card to managed. This causes interesting errors in programs that are sniffing in monitor mode, ranging from just not getting packets anymore (if the driver silently ignores channel sets in managed mode) to failure on channel set (if it doesn't.) It would seem to me that the simplest fix would be to ignore cards that are in monitor mode (and alternately put some sort of notice that they're being ignored in the menu/ui somewhere). I can, of course, just tell users they have to shut down networkmanager beforehand, but coexisting cleanly is probably better since users often don't read docs. I don't run gnome, or else I'd work on submitting a patch instead of just complaining. -m -- Mike Kershaw/Dragorn <dragorn kismetwireless net> GPG Fingerprint: 3546 89DF 3C9D ED80 3381 A661 D7B2 8822 738B BDB1 Know the rules other people live by. Know them well. Know them in the same way terrorists know about cars: so that you know where to put the bomb.
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