From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 2 19:25:55 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C66D16A403; Wed, 2 May 2007 19:25:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andy@neu.net) Received: from neu.net (neu.net [204.3.153.161]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30F3313C469; Wed, 2 May 2007 19:25:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andy@neu.net) Received: from neu.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by neu.net (8.13.6.20060614/8.13.4) with ESMTP id l42J4gUN055444; Wed, 2 May 2007 19:04:42 GMT (envelope-from andy@neu.net) Received: from localhost (andy@localhost) by neu.net (8.13.6.20060614/8.13.4/Submit) with ESMTP id l42J4gYa055438; Wed, 2 May 2007 19:04:42 GMT (envelope-from andy@neu.net) Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 19:04:41 +0000 (GMT) From: AN To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org, freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20070502183514.J37355@neu.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: Subject: kismet config problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 19:25:55 -0000 I am trying to configure kismet on an IBM Thinkpad R51, running FBSD 6.2stable and Gnome 2.18.1, with Atheros based Netgear WAG511 card. I added user kismet to the system, and changed permissions on /home/kismet to 777. (drwxrwxrwx 3 root wheel 512 May 2 20:40 kismet/). I have the following in Kismet config file: # User to setid to (should be your normal user) suiduser=kismet # YOU MUST CHANGE THIS TO BE THE SOURCE YOU WANT TO USE source=radiotap_bsd_ab,ath0,kismet The problem is that kismet fails to start, and produces the following output: # kismet Server options: none Client options: none Starting server... Waiting for server to start before starting UI... Will drop privs to kismet (1001) gid 1001 No specific sources given to be enabled, all will be enabled. Enabling channel hopping. Enabling channel splitting. Source 0 (kismet): Enabling monitor mode for radiotap_bsd_ab source interface ath0 channel 6... Source 0 (kismet): Opening radiotap_bsd_ab source interface ath0... WARNING: pcap reports link type of EN10MB but we'll fake it on BSD. This may not work the way we want it to. WARNING: Some Free- and Net- BSD drivers do not report rfmon packets correctly. Kismet will probably not run correctly. For better support, you should upgrade to a version of *BSD with Radiotap. Spawned channelc control process 29677 Dropped privs to kismet (1001) gid 1001 Allowing clients to fetch WEP keys. Logging networks to Kismet-May-02-2007-1.network Logging networks in CSV format to Kismet-May-02-2007-1.csv Logging networks in XML format to Kismet-May-02-2007-1.xml Logging cryptographically weak packets to Kismet-May-02-2007-1.weak Logging cisco product information to Kismet-May-02-2007-1.cisco Logging gps coordinates to Kismet-May-02-2007-1.gps Logging data to Kismet-May-02-2007-1.dump Writing data files to disk every 300 seconds. Mangling encrypted and fuzzy data packets. Tracking probe responses and associating probe networks. Reading AP manufacturer data and defaults from /usr/local/etc/ap_manuf Reading client manufacturer data and defaults from /usr/local/etc/client_manuf Using network-classifier based data encryption detection FATAL: Dump file error: Unable to open dump file Kismet-May-02-2007-1.dump (Permission denied) Sending termination request to channel control child 29677... Waiting for channel control child 29677 to exit... WARNING: Sometimes cards don't always come out of monitor mode cleanly. If your card is not fully working, you may need to restart or reconfigure it for normal operation. Kismet exiting. So, it seems as if there is a permissions issue trying to create the dump file. I would appreciate any help getting this to work, if more debug info is needed please let me know. TIA, Andy