[Prism54-users] New stable - Kismet-Feb-04-01

Simon.Green@vodafone.co.nz Simon.Green@vodafone.co.nz
Wed, 11 Feb 2004 13:24:43 +1300


Scratch that -- just pull the card out, put it back in, and *don't do
ifconfig ethX up* before you start kismet.


Cheers
Simon

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: prism54-users-admin@prism54.org=20
> [mailto:prism54-users-admin@prism54.org] On Behalf Of Mike Kershaw
> Sent: Tuesday, 10 February 2004 6:01 p.m.
> To: wireless@kismetwireless.net
> Cc: prism54-users@prism54.org
> Subject: [Prism54-users] New stable - Kismet-Feb-04-01
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>=20
> New Kismet stable release is up, with 6 months of bugfixes,=20
> speed boosts, new features, and general good stuff, including:
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>  * Rewritten packet engine, tens of times faster than 3.x, migrated
>    monitor mode and channel change to ioctl calls for greater=20
> speed and
>    efficiency
>  * Support for FreeBSD radiotap
>  * Improved OpenBSD support
>  * Support for running kismet on WRT54G aps
>  * Support for Prism54 and Madwifi
>  * Fixed remote drones
>  * Unmonitor support
>  * Improved error handling and return codes
>  * Vastly improved gpsmap data filtering
>  * Gpsmap legend drawing, bugs in multiple gpsxml file parsing,
>    allocation bugs,
>  * Much improved packet dissection and validation, duplicate IV
>  * detection
>  * Countless other bug fixes to protocol consistency, OSX support,
>    variable initialization, CSV output, and more.=20
>  * Data and probe network autogrouping in panels client
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> This also marks the start of the new versioning scheme. For=20
> various reasons, the previous major.minor.tiny scheme isn't=20
> making much sense anymore, so the new versioning will be=20
> month.year.pointrelease - hopefully this will lend itself to=20
> more monthly stable releases instead of waiting 6 months every time.=20
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> Download is in the usual spot at=20
> http://www.kismetwireless.net/. Binaries for > arm (static=20
> uclibc linkage with uclx compression yields binaries that=20
> should run on any arm system and distribution and are still=20
> smaller than the old dynlinked binaries) and mipsel (wrt54g=20
> linksys router binaries) are also up for download.
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> Hopefully I didn't miss anything,
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> -m
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> --=20
> "Don't kill me, or you'll have to clean up all the other=20
> messes I've left=20
>  half broken!" -- Eric
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