Mandrake Linux 10

Mandrake Linux 10.1

Airsnort / Kismet RPM

HOWTO

Karentech80

February 01 2005

Released for all to enjoy.

Introduction

The purpose of this document is to describe the exact steps for installing the updated Orinoco Driver and Airsnort RPM on a system running Mandrake Linux 10.1

Hardware

The following hardware was used for this installation.

Lucent\Agere mini PCI wireless card installed in a regular size PCI adapter card using a Texas Instruments 1410 chipset for use in a desktop system.
ASUS P4PE-V motherboard with Celeron 1.7 GHZ CPU
To save me grief the onboard Broadcom 4401 ethernet adapter was disabled.The BCM4401 driver WAS detected and loaded during installation by this version.
My hard drive is a 2.5GB Seagate ST52520A.

Install Mandrake 10.1 (2.6.8.1-12mdk) Download Edition

Install a fresh copy of Mandrake 10.1

I installed the following packages

Internet Station

Configuration Console

Console tools

Gnome

I created a user called “admin” (you can use whatever username you want)

Download files (download all files to /usr/local/src )

kernel-source-2..6-2.6.8.1-12mdk.i586.rpm

orinoco-0.15rc2.tar.gz

prism2-utils-0.2.1-0.pre21.2mdk.i586.rpm

airsnort-0.2.7e-1mdk.i586.rpm

kismet-3.1.040401-4mdk.i586.rpm (optional if just installing Airsnort)

I was logged in a “root” for all install procedures. Why? Because it works.

1. Install kernel source

Mandrake 10.1 download edition does not include the kernel-source package you must download it and install it. I did most of the installing of the RPM’s from the GUI instead of the command line where possible. The new “Computer” is great for navigating to the files I want.

Open the “Computer” icon and navigate to /usr/local/src and locate the “kernel-source-2.6-2.6.8.1-12mdk.i586.rpm” package and run it. Install the dependencies that are required and then the package.

Here is the command line version.

# rpm –i kernel-source-2.6-2.6.8.1-12mdk.i586.rpm

2. Install prism2 utilities()

Open the GUI "Computer" icon go to /usr/local/src

Run the prism2-utils-0.2.1-0.pre21.2mdk.i586.rpm package. Follow the on screen instructions.

3. Rename original wireless drivers in /lib/modules/2.6.8.1-12mdk/kernel/drivers/net/wireless (optional)

From the GUI open a file manager window and open /lib/modules/2.6.8.1-12mdk/kernel/drivers/net/wireless

Rename hermes.ko.gz to hermes.ko.gz.bu

Rename orinoco_cs.ko.gz to orinoco_cs.ko.gz.bu

Rename orinoco.ko.gz to orinoco.ko.gz.bu

Rename orinoco_pci.ko.gz to orinoco_pci.ko.gz.bu

Rename orinoco_plx.ko.gz to orinoco_plx.ko.gz.bu

Rename orinoco_tmd.o.gz to orinoco_tmd.o.gz.bu

Or move these files to a new folder so you can put them back if this doesn’t work.

4. Make Orinoco-0.15rc2 Drivers (This step will fail if you do not do step 1)

Open a terminal window and execute steps 4 to 6.

# cd /usr/local/src

# tar –zxf orinoco-0.15rc2.tar.gz

# cd orinoco-0.15rc2

# make

gzip the wireless driver modules created by make.

# gzip *.ko

5. Copy patched Orinoco drivers from /usr/local/src to /lib/modules/2.6.8.1-12mdk/kernel/drivers/net/wireless

# cd /usr/local/src/orinoco-0.15rc2

# cp *.ko.gz /lib/modules/2.6.8.1-12mdk/kernel/drivers/net/wireless

6. Restart PCMCIA service and check if new driver modules are loaded

# service pcmcia restart

Check to see if our patched driver loaded. The”monitor” feature should be added.

# dmesg

Look for this line:

Orinoco 0.15rc2STA (David Gibson < [email protected] >,

Pavel Roskin < [email protected]>,et al)

From what I have read version 0.15rc2STA includes monitor mode.

Close terminal window.

7. Install Airsnort RPM using the GNOME GUI

Open “Computer” and navigate to /usr/local/src

Locate and run the following package “airsnort-0.2.7e-1mdk.i586.rpm”

Ignore the “invalid signature warning” and proceed with the install.

Install dependencies as needed

Close window.

8. Run Airsnort.

Open terminal window.

# airsnort

From the GUI change the card type to “Host AP/Orinoco”

Choose your network card “eth0” or your wireless card location

Click “Start”

Enjoy!

If the selection of Eth0 or whatever card you are using is not working do a shutdown and reboot.

Kismet

9. Install Kismet RPM

Open “Computer” and navigate to /usr/local/src

Run the following RPM package : “ kismet-3.1.040401-4mdk.i586.rpm”

Ignore the “invalid signature” warning and proceed with the install.

Install required dependencies

Close window.

10. Configure Kismet

Kismet will not run logged in as “root”

Create a user “admin” or whatever you want. This is the user you will put in the configuration file in place of “your_user_here”

Open /etc/kismet.conf

11. Change the following values in “kismet.conf”

suiduser=<username you created> (admin)

source=Orinoco,eth0,Kismet

These 2 changes are required. Editing the other items is optional.

Save changes and exit the configuration file.

12. Kismet Log setup

Open a terminal window.

# cd /home/<username you created>

# mkdir kismet-logs

#chown your_user_name:your_user_name kismet-logs

13. Run Kismet

Open a terminal window and enter the following

#kismet

If you have to log in as “root”

#cd /home/<username you created>

#kismet

Warning ! Use at your own risk. No warranties or liabilities expressed or implied. These procedures may even blow up your computer.

This HowTO is to be free for all to use and copy.

To Do

Install this on a P3 singleboard computer Lunchbox PC ,

Install on a Dell Inspiron 1150 using a 802.11b orinoco mini PCI card.

Install on a no name “@ Book” piece O crap Pentium 233 laptop. If I can overcome the 2GB BIOS limitation.

Maybe do an Install on a Dell “Axim X5” PDA. This is already a killer war walking setup using “Pocket Warrior” and “Ministumbler”

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