what the heck! cant get hostap drivers to work

[renizer]

hi,

this is almost driving me mad:
i use a zcom xi-325hp with the prism2 pri / sta 1.1.1 / 1.7.4 firmware on it.

regardless of what i do, airmon-ng always says

Interface Chipset Driver

eth1 Centrino b/g ipw2200
wlan0 Prism2 wlan-ng

ok, first off -- wtf, i thought there was no more wlan-ng on BT2?

second, i have already tried blacklist and several modprobe and rmmod as well as editing the hostap_cs.c (my zcom card was even in there, with the right id!) and the blacklist file.

using wikis advice about modprobe -r orinoco(_cs) / hermes && modprobe hostap_cs doesnt work either, and yes i have removed the card before doing this.

besides this, unloading orinoco appears useless in my case since it seems that the orinoco or hermes driver is never ever loaded, just the wlan-ng and i just cant get it to work with hostap!

can anyone help me on this one?
TIA!

greetz,
renizer

edit:

airmon-ng start wlan0
seems to work at first, but when i want to use airodump it tells me it got troubles with monitor on wlan0

airmon-ng start wlan0 channel <N>
will result in invalid operation "Set Frequency" Oo?

[shamanvirtuel]

have you check if there is iwpriv commands for the card, if yes use them to set monitor mode and things you need(like me i need to activate rfmontx or my card won't inject).

just my 2 cents, some cards needs to use iwpriv commands....weird...

[renizer]

no, there are no private ioctls either that i could set with iwpriv, i have already checked that.

the funny thing is, when i use airmon-ng to set it into monitor, it is stated in dmesg that monitor mode was enabled, but when i want to use airodump it says "error setting monitor mode on wlan0"

i also tried using the old monitor.wlan script but that doesnt exist anymore so i tried the manual way with the wlanctl-ng commands:

wlanctl-ng wlan0 lnxreq_ifstate ifstate=disable
wlanctl-ng wlan0 lnxreq_wlansniff channel=8 enable=true prismheader=true
wlanctl-ng wlan0 lnxreq_ifstate ifstate=enable
ifconfig wlan0 up

does the same as airmon-ng.. dmesg says monitor mode enabled but airodump-ng doesnt work. (iwconfig -> wlan0 mode = auto !?)

BTW i just found that my xi325hp only features 11 channels, should that be a problem?

thanks,
regards