question

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Wed, 7 Jan 2004 14:25:37 -0500
Matthew Carpenter <matt at eisgr.com> wrote:

> I have used the DWL650 card with both the "linux-wlan" driver as well as
> the "orinoco" driver.  Both seem to work pretty well, although I've been
> warned that the Orinoco driver can be unstable with the DWL650 and I
> should use the linux-wlan driver.  This was the Prism2 chipset, not the
> Intel like Roger was talking about.
> 
> Either way, I'm using an Orinoco card most frequently these days anyway.
> It works nicely with Kismet and AirSnort without having to install a whole
> huge rigamorole like the linux-wlan drivers.  Installing the patched
> driver with monitor mode (sniffing without having to be associated to an
> AP) is a simple overlay of the original driver. 

That is the main trouble with the driverloader setup: I cannot run things
like Kismet, as they rely on intimate driver access. At least it was not
obvious to me how you would get them to use a driver loaded as linuxart have
set up.


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