Getting kismet to run on the v.7 Familiar distro is a little different than it was on v.53. It's easier in some respects, but I was unable to make kismet_curses work, and switched to wirekismet which worked out of the box.

kismet.conf

Download HERE
Contents of /usr/etc/kismet.conf, stripped of comments:

version=2.4.6 tcpport=2501 allowedhosts=127.0.0.1 maxclients=5 captype=pcap capinterface=wifi0 cardtype=cisco gps=false gpshost=localhost:2947 writeinterval=300 sound=true soundplay=/usr/bin/play sound_new=/usr/local/share/kismet/wav/new_network.wav sound_traffic=/usr/local/share/kismet/wav/traffic.wav sound_junktraffic=/usr/local/share/kismet/wav/junk_traffic.wav speech=false festival=/usr/bin/festival metric=false waypoints=false waypointdata=%h/.gpsdrive/way_kismet.txt logtypes=dump,network,csv,xml,weak,cisco,gps noiselog=false beaconlog=true fuzzycrypt=prism2,wtapfile dumptype=wiretap dumplimit=0 logdefault=Kismet logtemplate=/tmp/%n-%d-%i.%l configdir=%h/.kismet/ ssidmap=ssid_map groupmap=group_map ipmap=ip_map

Start and Stop

I experimented with various procedures until I could reliably start and stop kismet - even after a power cycle. These procedures went into scripts in /usr/bin

start.kismet: Download HERE

[root@ipaq ~]# cd /usr/bin
[root@ipaq ~]# cat <<EOM >start.kismet
#!/bin/sh
#cardctl eject  # just eject the card, duh.
#cardctl insert
ifconfig eth0 down
kismet_monitor -i eth0
ifconfig wifi0 up
echo "Mode: r" > /proc/driver/aironet/eth0/Config 
echo "Mode: y" > /proc/driver/aironet/eth0/Config 
kismet_server &
sleep 3          # paranoid. let the card settle down.
exec wirekismet &
EOM

stop.kismet: Download HERE

[root@ipaq ~]# cat <<EOM >stop.kismet
#!/bin/sh
killall wirekismet
killall kismet_server
EOM
[root@ipaq ~]# chmod 755 start.kismet stop.kismet

Menu Items

I am currently experimenting with GPE, so I created menu items for the scripts in /usr/share/applications:

startkismet.desktop: Download HERE

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Start Kismet
Comment=Start Kismet
Exec=start.kismet
Terminal=0
Type=Application
Icon=gpe-wlancfg.png
Categories=Application
StartupNotify=True

stopkismet.desktop: Download HERE

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Stop Kismet
Comment=Stop Kismet
Exec=stop.kismet
Terminal=0
Type=Application
Icon=gpe-wlancfg.png
Categories=Application
StartupNotify=False

I also created menu items for matchbox, but cannot test them. These go in /usr/lib/menu. Feedback and bug reports welcome.
Download startkismet
Download stopkismet

last update: Wed Sep 17 07:15:09 EDT 2003
...dave