Orinoco Drivers With Monitor Mode In 6.10 (Edgy Eft)

[webcrawler42]

getting the orinoco drivers to work in edgy eft is rather quite easy, despite what other guides say the only thing you have to download is the prepatched plasmahh drivers (http://www.projectiwear.org/~plasmah...-SN-14.tar.bz2)

1. download & extract "orinoco-0.13e-SN-14.tar.bz2" to your desktop
2. open the terminal and type "cd /Desktop/orinoco-0.13e-SN-14/", which puts you in the prepatched driver directory
3. still in terminal type "sudo make" which will compile the drivers, i had a bunch of errors pop up, but as long as it finishes compiling it shouldn't matter
4. still in terminal type "sudo cp *.ko /lib/modules/2.6.17-10-generic/kernel/drivers/net/wireless", this will copy the newly compiled drivers to where they will be loaded by ubuntu (i have been told by ninocass you can "sudo cp *.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/net/wireless" and it will "enter the users kernel version incase someone is running this under a different kernel", i have not tested if this works yet)
5. REBOOT, needed to load the new patched drivers
6. open a new terminal and type "iwpriv eth1" (may not be eth1, use ifconfig to check) to make sure you did everything correctly it should show monitor mode as 2

[Mach1US]

I`v tried to copy drivers and i get " cp: cannot stat `*.ko': No such file or directory " .
I`v tried in /home dir and in /Desktop/orinoco-0.13e-SN-14$ with same result
Am i supposed to be in different directory ?

[webcrawler42]

are there .ko drivers in the directory, what is the "ls" read out if you cd into the driver directory, and are you in the extracted driver dir when you try to copy them?

[jakobw]

How do you load the compiled drivers, after copying into the proper dirextory? Is that everything you did with a fresh installed ubuntu 6.10? I'm kind of hesitating, because I had lots of trouble with orinoco-driver-stuff before.
Thanks in advance, Jake

[webcrawler42]

How do you load the compiled drivers

They are actually loaded on the reboot, after they are copied to the correct directory.

Is that everything you did with a fresh installed ubuntu 6.10?

Yes, that is why i said "despite what other guides say the only thing you have to download is the prepatched plasmahh drivers (http://www.projectiwear.org/~plasmah...-SN-14.tar.bz2)"

I'm kind of hesitating, because I had lots of trouble with orinoco-driver-stuff before.

I have had lots of trouble also, that is why i wrote this guide.

[Mach1US]

Thanks for all the help .
In fact i was in extracted dir and still i have gotten same message .
For some reason i can not figure it out on my own.
After aditional attempts i`m still getting same message.
that`s my output:
m@D6000:~/Desktop/orinoco-0.13e-SN-14$ sudo cp *.ko /lib/modules/2.6.17-10-generic/kernel/drivers/net/wireless
cp: cannot stat `*.ko': No such file or directory
m@D6000:~/Desktop/orinoco-0.13e-SN-14$ ls
airport.c hermes.h ieee802_11.h orinoco.c orinoco.o orinoco_tmd.c
hermes.c hermes.o Makefile orinoco_cs.c orinoco_pci.c README.orinoco
hermes.conf hermes_rid.h Modules.symvers orinoco.h orinoco_plx.c userhermes.c
m@D6000:~/Desktop/orinoco-0.13e-SN-14$

any clues ???

[jakobw]

sweet!it really does work I think. thats the corresponding line I get from "iwpriv eth1" : monitor ( 8 B E 8 ) : set 2 int & get 0
So I would say the 2 means monitor mode is enabled. Anyway, I still can not read any accesspoints when I run "iwlist eth1 scanning", even not the one I am connected to. In fact, I get the massage "eht1 Interface doesn't support scanning." So I'll have to play around with this.

@webcrawler42 did you try "iwlist eth1 scanning"? And what is your hardware, a pcmcia card? what chipset & firmware?

@Mach1US looks like you got no *.ko files.... no wonder you can't copy them. try unpacking again. good luck!

[webcrawler42]

Thanks for all the help .
In fact i was in extracted dir and still i have gotten same message .
For some reason i can not figure it out on my own.
After aditional attempts i`m still getting same message.
that`s my output:
m@D6000:~/Desktop/orinoco-0.13e-SN-14$ sudo cp *.ko /lib/modules/2.6.17-10-generic/kernel/drivers/net/wireless
cp: cannot stat `*.ko': No such file or directory
m@D6000:~/Desktop/orinoco-0.13e-SN-14$ ls
airport.c hermes.h ieee802_11.h orinoco.c orinoco.o orinoco_tmd.c
hermes.c hermes.o Makefile orinoco_cs.c orinoco_pci.c README.orinoco
hermes.conf hermes_rid.h Modules.symvers orinoco.h orinoco_plx.c userhermes.c
m@D6000:~/Desktop/orinoco-0.13e-SN-14$

any clues ???

yes, you have not compiled the drivers (i think you forgot to "sudo make"), hence there are no .ko files, try fallowing my guide step by step and make sure you are using edgy eft.

[webcrawler42]

@webcrawler42 did you try "iwlist eth1 scanning"?

not familiar with "iwlist eth1 scanning" i just use kismet, i suggest you try it too.

And what is your hardware, a pcmcia card? what chipset & firmware?

is your wifi card eth1? my hardware is a orinoco gold classic 802.11b, 8410-WD, pcmia, Hermes I chipset and 8.72 firmware.

[jakobw]

yes my card is a pcmcia card with the same chipset as yours. Well, after a while I figured that you have to run iwlist as root (sudo) to get any scanning results. So it's working after all. I guess I'll give kismet a try....

Great tutorial though!