Wireless card messed up as well
Hi,
first of all I'm sorry to dig this out of the dust but got the exact same situation here. And since this thread was the closest thing I came across and there doesn't seem to be any solution to this I decided to post anyway.
So similar story - playing with aircrack-ng suite on a FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE i386, rebuilt a week or so ago from latest sources, Intel based wireless card - bit short on features but that's what I got in this old laptop
Code:
wpi0: <Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG> mem 0xd2100000-0xd2100fff irq 19 at device 0.0 on pci5
At first I couldn't get aireplay-ng work at all, then read here and there (ports post-install messages are actually our friends
) and put the wireless in
monitor mode. While being able to run airodump-ng in this mode, aireplay-ng was a no-go (wi_write(): Input/output error). So I found this thread and following the advice here tried to put the wi-fi card in
ahdemo mode which failed because it turned out the card doesn't support this mode (doh). So I quit trying on aircrack-ng but just like with tfwiii my wireless card got sort of messed up.
No matter what config I set on it, it just can't connect to anything and keeps spitting in the console
Code:
wpi0: fatal firmware error
It's not completely dead because I can do some basic stuff like scanning for networks for example (and if I set it in
monitor mode still runs airodump-ng and captures) but can't hook it to any network, rendering it practically useless.
The wpi man page mentions this
Code:
[B]wpi%d: fatal firmware error[/B] An unknown error has occurred in the
uploaded firmware, you may have to unload/reload the driver to continue.
but sadly in this case this is not a solution - as soon as the kernel modules are reloaded the error message is on the console again.
The card used to work fine before this stunt and it can't have suffered any hardware damage as it still works perfectly under Windows (have dual boot on the machine).
Haven't tweaked or patched any sources, only played with ifconfig.
If anyone has ideas or surplus of curiosity I can provide extra info and diagnostics.
All input is much appreciated. Cheers.