hi
i’m new on this forum:)
i bought a dell inspiron 1525 with a BCM4312 wieless card
i installed opensuse 11.2 on
wifi work find with the wl driver but can’t put it in Monitor mode:(
i’ve tried with the b43 driver but it don’t work
can someone help me please.
regards
No chance with “wl.ko”, ssb/b43 might work if used from latest kernel drivers (compat-wireless or kernel >= 2.6.33).
On 03/14/2010 01:36 PM, Akoellh wrote:
>
> No chance with “wl.ko”, ssb/b43 might work if used from latest kernel
> drivers (compat-wireless or kernel >= 2.6.33).
Monitor mode will work with b43. To create the monitor interface, do the following:
sudo /usr/sbin/iw dev wlan0 interface add wlanmon type monitor
sudo /sbin/ifconfig wlan0mon0 up
After these steps, wireshark will be in promiscuous mode with wlan0mon0.
hi
thanks for your answers
@Akoellh: i will install kernel 2.6.33 on slackware to test it 
@lwfinger: but when i want modprob the b43 driver i have a bad message like:
FATAL: Error inserting b43 (/lib/modules/2.6.31.12-0.1-desktop/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/b43/b43.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
and when i watch in dmseg i have this:
219.477042] ssb: Unknown parameter `b43’ 
any ideas ??
thanks
Yes, don’t fsck around with module parameter files like /etc/modprobe.conf or /etc/modprobe.d/some-file.conf , if you don’t know, what you are doing.
# modprobe -v b43
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.31.12-0.1-desktop/kernel/drivers/pcmcia/pcmcia_core.ko
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.31.12-0.1-desktop/kernel/net/rfkill/rfkill.ko
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.31.12-0.1-desktop/kernel/net/wireless/cfg80211.ko
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.31.12-0.1-desktop/kernel/net/mac80211/mac80211.ko
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.31.12-0.1-desktop/kernel/drivers/pcmcia/pcmcia.ko
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.31.12-0.1-desktop/kernel/drivers/ssb/ssb.ko
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.31.12-0.1-desktop/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/b43/b43.ko
Works for me™.
P.S.
I am not really interested in following two threads about the same issue (even or especially if one of them is in a different subforum no matter if it is in another language) to keep up in what you might have messed up ^W^W done in the meantime, so I’m out of this.
hi
i didn’t modify any files in /etc/modprobe.d/ (modprobe.conf does not exist 
)
sorry for the two post but i thought french forum is not the same thing
Well, it works here™, so obviously you did something wrong.
As you don’t even tell us what you did, I would have to wildly guess, not really my cup of tea.
Additionally, I get the impression, you don’t really have a clue what you are doing here and ask for help about monitoring other people’s wireless.
If you had something sane in mind like professional penetration testing, you would know what you are doing and not have to ask for such basics but as you obviously don’t know what you are doing, one must assume, you don’t want to do something sane with that and I certainly will not support somebody in how to crack his neighbour’s wireless.
Yes, I know, it’s always “but I only want to test my own wireless for security”, well then secure it with WPA2 and a good, random passphrase and you’re done.
Hi
i am IT manager in french society,i’m not a hacker of neighboors wifi
if i want to hack something i’ll go on an hackers site
but it’s not what i want
i will look about this files tonight but i don’t remember i’ve touch anything in that.
if you don’t want answer me no problem i understand
bye
hi for news
in my /etc/modprobe.d/50.yast.conf i could see “options ssb b43”
i edit the file and erase that
after modprobe -v b43 gave me this
hp17:~ # modprobe -v b43
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.31.12-0.1-desktop/kernel/drivers/pcmcia/pcmcia_core.ko
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.31.12-0.1-desktop/kernel/net/rfkill/rfkill.ko
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.31.12-0.1-desktop/kernel/net/wireless/cfg80211.ko
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.31.12-0.1-desktop/kernel/net/mac80211/mac80211.ko
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.31.12-0.1-desktop/kernel/drivers/pcmcia/pcmcia.ko
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.31.12-0.1-desktop/kernel/drivers/ssb/ssb.ko
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.31.12-0.1-desktop/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/b43/b43.ko
hp17:~ #
i think this problem came when i try to mount b43 driver via yast
so i can mount ssb and b43 drivers but can’t mount my wireless card
so i upgrade kernel in 2.6.33.1 and all is working (Monitor mode on B43 driver card) lol!
so thanks again to Akoellh and lwfinger
i promise you to not hack my neighboors wireless lol!lol!
bye
finally it d’o not work with 2.6.33.1 but with 2.6.34 rc1
to compile kernel on opensuse:
Configurer, Compiler et Installer un noyau Linux personnalisé - openSUSE
bye