Karma

Has anyone managed to get Karma running without issues on BT2.0? This tool is great but i've always had problems getting it running. On my installation of BT2.0 I get Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
SET failed on device ath0 ; Invalid argument. When I try and start the Karma script.

I'm sure this is a driver issue and not just the card not switching into monitor mode.

I have a the same hardware and wireless card running Karma on Fedora4 without any problems.

Any ideas?

run airmon-ng , you will see wifi0 with your eth1 internal card and ath0

run

airmon start wifi0

then run iwconfig , you will see another interface ( ath1 )

run the karma with it , it will work

Thanks for the response, but I still have the same problem after running the airmon-ng commands. Changed karma.xml to specify ath1 as the interface but when I run the file I get the same error (this time for ath1)

SIOCSIFHWADDR: Invalid argument
Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
SET failed on device ath1 ; Invalid argument.


I think my interfaces all look ok, I can see that ath1 is in monitor mode.

bt sbin # airmon-ng start wifi0


Interface Chipset Driver

wifi0 Atheros madwifi-ng
eth1 Centrino b/g ipw2200
ath0 Atheros madwifi-ng VAP (parent: wifi0)
ath1 Atheros madwifi-ng VAP (parent: wifi0) (monitor mode enabled)

made some progress. you'll notice Before and After. I put those in to debug where I'm getting hung up. As soon as i hit control-c, the after part is printed to screen.

Quote:

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bt karma-20060124 # ./bin/karma etc/karma-scan.xml
Starting KARMA...
Loading config file etc/karma-scan.xml
ACCESS-POINT is running
DNS-SERVER is running
DHCP-SERVER is running
Delivering judicious KARMA, hit Control-C to quit.
before
SIOCSIFHWADDR: Invalid argument
Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument.
after
/pentest/wireless/karma-20060124/modules/servers/DhcpServer/dhcp.rb:127:in `initialize': No such file or directory - /tmp/karma5411.0 (Errno::ENOENT)
from /pentest/wireless/karma-20060124/modules/servers/DhcpServer/dhcp.rb:127:in `stop'
from ./bin/../modules/loader.rb:212:in `stop'
from ./bin/../modules/loader.rb:206:in `stop'
from ./bin/../modules/loader.rb:204:in `stop'
from ./bin/karma:59
from ./bin/karma:58
from ./bin/karma:64

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Here's the extra code I added for debugging... this is in .../karma-20060124/bin/karma

Quote:

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# Wait for all threads to terminate or SIGINT
puts "before"
trap ("SIGINT") {
puts "after"
Karma::MODULES.each_value() {|m|
m.stop()
}

exit(0)

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So basically, trap ("SIGINT") { is causing this to happen:

Quote:

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SIOCSIFHWADDR: Invalid argument
Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument.

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I have a Senao Prism2 card, It injects nicely and is flashed to 1.7.4. iwconfig mode Managed / Monitor works fine, not sure why I'm getting the Set Mode message. Airmon-ng shows I'm in monitor mode. I even used the Karma monitor mode script which works flawlessly after creating sym links in /usr/sbin

progress: try using karma.xml instead of karma-scan. I don't get errors.

Quote:

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bt karma-20060124 # ./bin/karma etc/karma.xml
Starting KARMA...
Loading config file etc/karma.xml
ACCESS-POINT is running
DNS-SERVER is running
DHCP-SERVER is running
POP3-SERVER is running
FTP-SERVER is running
[2007-04-10 23:52:39] INFO WEBrick 1.3.1
[2007-04-10 23:52:39] INFO ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i686-linux]
[2007-04-10 23:52:39] INFO WEBrick::HTTPServer#start: pid=23635 port=80
HTTP-SERVER is running
CONTROLLER-SERVLET is running
EXAMPLE-WEB-EXPLOIT is running
Delivering judicious KARMA, hit Control-C to quit.
before

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It must have something to do with the new madwifi and iwpriv.... I am having the same issue.

has anyone ever got this to work?

btw, this thread should probably be moved to specialist topics > wireless.

Finally got my system working with digininja.org and his Karma patch for the updated Madwifi 0.9.3.3

Can use iwpriv to put the card in Karma mode.

Makes me happy I can finally toast my Fedora 4 install with Karma and just run Backtrack 2 :)

Nice

Can someone go through the steps to get Karma working on BT3
It sounds like a patch from Digininja.or is necessary.


Thanks,

Ok, I got Karma working with the dninja patches www [dot] digininja [dot] org
and with a little help from H D Moore's metasploit intergration scripts it works great. Let me know if you would like to see the script...