ipw3945 monitor & promiscuous how-to

[ragecyr]

Get the drivers from ipw3945 on sourceforge, you want the 1.1.0-pre2 versions

Unzip ipw3945-linux-1.1.0-pre2.tgz

	% tar xzvf ipw3945-1.1.0-pre2.tgz
	% cd ipw3945-1.1.0-pre2

Here we will take a second to enable monitor mode.

% nano Makefile

On line 29 change: # CONFIG_IPW3945_MONITOR=y
To: CONFIG_IPW3945_MONITOR=y
(just take out the # )

A few lines after that is the same line but monitor says promiscuous, make the same change
Ctrl X
Yes to save
Enter to overwrite
Now in order to make the file we need to get an uncompiled kernel
Download http://www.remote-exploit.org/kernel.mo

% uselivemod kernal.mo

Now back at the shell prompt

% make

If it complains about the ieeee80211 file, you can either ignore it and do what it says to add that line in, or

	% tar xzvf ipw3945-1.0.0.tgz
	% cd ipw3945-1.0.0
	% make

Now we need to do the firmware

	% wget http://bughost.org/ipw3945/ucode/ipw3945-ucode-1.13.tgz .
	% tar xzvf ipw3945-ucode-1.13.tgz 
	# cp ipw3945-ucode-1.13/ipw3945.ucode /lib/firmware

Now we have to get the daemon to work with our card

	% wget http://bughost.org/ipw3945/daemon/ipw3945d-1.7.18.tgz .
	% tar xzvf ipw3945d-1.7.18.tgz
	# cp ipw3945d-1.7.18/x86/ipw3945d /sbin

Now we can load them

	# ./load debug=0

Now check out iwconfig… now u can do a iwconfig eth1 mode monitor. and i tested ethereal and it DID go to promiscuous (when just doing monitor mode in 1.0.0 drivers it said it could not get that mode)

[bugmenot11235]

I'm kinda new to this sorry but when you say now we can load them am I meant to navigate to a different directory and type

./load debug=0

because at the moment I get 'no such file or directory'

EDIT:

Not sure if it was the ipw3945-1.1.0-pre2 directory so I tried but a succesful load but then iwconfig shows

lo no wireless extensions.

sit0 no wireless extensions.

ppp0 no wireless extensions.

[cob4lt]

You must go to ipw3945-1.1.0-pre2 directory and then type ./load debug=0

[ragecyr]

yea you must be in the ipw3945 folder when you run the ./load. i know i just made a script (for each wireless signal i get on) on my desktop to:

cd..
cd ipw3945-1.1.0-pre2
./load debug=0
iwconfig eth1 essid ______
ifconfig eth1 up
dhcpcd eth1

this way it just reloads the drivers each time incase its in monitor mode or what not.





when you run ./load debug=0 it should say in that text that it finds the card... if not then its not loading correctly... look at teh text

[kpage]

hi, i'm new at this so any help would be apprecieated.

When I download the kernel.mo file, does this file have to be moved to a specific directory before the 'uselivemod kernel.mo' command can be used?

After following all the steps and typing in ./load debug=0, I keep getting the following error. Can anyone tell me what i'm doing wrong?

Unloaded: ipw3945 ieee80211 ieee80211_crypt
WARNING: Could not open '/lib/modules/2.6.15.6/kernel/net/ieee80211/ieee80211_crypt.ko': No such file or directory
FATAL: Could not open '/lib/modules/2.6.15.6/net/ieee80211/ieee80211.ko': No such file or directory
insmod: can't read './ipw3945.ko': No such file or directory
Load failed.
ipw3945d - regulatory daemon
Copyright (C) 2005-2006 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.
version: 1.7.18
2006-09-24 15:27:30: ERROR: opening /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw3945:
No such file or directory (2)
2006-09-24 15:27:30: ERROR: Could not find Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection

[cob4lt]

Did you "install" kernel.mo? I can see that your linux can't find your kernel directory or you dont have ieee80211 installed on system

Did you install ieee80211?

[kpage]

ah, I didn't do that. All I did was download kernel.mo, and used the 'uselivemod kernel.mo' I think i missed the next step for the iee80211 file.

[bugmenot11235]

I do every listed but when I type 'iwconfig' eth1 is not listed. Any ideas?

[ragecyr]

make sure you do the ./load debug=0

read what it says and that it does find the card... if it does theres no reason why iwconfig shouldn't show it. make sure eth1 is the card maybe its eth2 or something, so doing just iwconfig should show everything and what works.

[kpage]

ok, i have a little probelm again. i'm able to switch between monitor mode now, but when i scan for networks, it says it didn't find anything. do i have to enable the network card somehow?