Always use the latest version (2)

As I told before, always use the latest version if you have troubles with some piece of software. Such a stupid mistake made me loose lots of time today and yesterday. I had troubles gettig my wireless card in monitor mode. When your card is in monitor mode, you only recieve packets without sending some, so you can't be seen by other hosts but you can listen to all trafic and detect hosts or access points. This is the setting used by Kismet and other programs to analyse your network. Other modes are Managed and Ad-Hoc.

When I used the command iwconfig eth1 mode monitor at my Gentoo-installation, I always recieved an error message "this mode is not supported" or "illegal operation" or something like that. The strange thing was that the software on the Auditor Security Collection LiveCD worked without any problem. After lots of digging into things like iwpriv, wich has lots of more possibilities, I discovered that I was running an older version of IPW2200 and IPW2200-firmware wich doesn't support monitor mode. The version in the stable branch wasn't the latest available version, I had to use the packet from the unstable branch, wich works fine. So if you also have this problem, just add those two ebuilds to your package.keywords file with the ~x86 keyword, upgrade them and everything should work fine :-D