1Kismet Win32 Readme 2 31. Requirements 42. Quick Start 52. Configuring Kismet 63. Building Kismet 7 8 91. Requirements 10 11 The Windows version of kismet requires Windows 2000, Windows XP (32/64bit), 12 Windows Server 2003 (32/64bit), or Vista (32bit). 13 14 At this time, only two kinds of sources are supported: 15 16 * Drones 17 * The AirPcap USB capture adapter from CACE Technologies 18 (http://www.cacetech.com/products/airpcap.htm) 19 20 THE AIRPCAP ADAPTER IS THE ONLY WAY FOR KISMET TO CAPTURE LIVE 802.11 21 TRAFFIC UNDER WINDOWS. NO OTHER CARDS ARE SUPPORTED. THIS LIMITATION IS 22 CAUSED BY THE LACK OF SNIFFER-MODE CAPABLE DRIVERS ON WINDOWS; THE 23 AIRPCAP ADAPTER CIRCUMVENTS THIS LIMITATION THROUGH THE USE OF A SPECIALIZED 24 CUSTOM DRIVER. 25 26 If multiple AirPcap adapters are plugged in, Kismet is able to take 27 advantage of them to listen on more than one channel simultaneously. 28 292. Quick Start 30 31 The easiest way to run Kismet on Windows is downloading and running the 32 installer executable available at 33 34 http://www.cacetech.com/support/downloads.htm 35 36 The installer creates an entry under "All Programs" with the following 37 items: 38 39 * Kismet: the program executable. 40 * Kismet Configuration Console: the GUI that can be used to configure the 41 program behavior. 42 * Command Line Prompt: this opens a dos console in the kismet installation 43 folder; advanced users can use this to manually run kismet_server.exe, 44 kismet_client.exe or kismet_drone.exe. 45 * Kismet Logs Folder: this shourtcut allows access to the files that kismet 46 produces when it runs. The folder will be empty until Kismet is run at 47 least once. 48 49 After the installer is done, just click on "Kismet", and the program will 50 start with all the available AirPcap adapters as sources. 51 522. Configuring Kismet 53 54 Run the Kismet Configuration Console (start -> All Programs -> Kismet -> 55 Kismet Configuration Console). You will have the option to configure: 56 57 * the local sources Kismet will use for packet capture. 58 * the list of drones Kismet will try to connect to for remote monitoring. 59 * if kismet will log information about the discovered networks to disk. 60 61 Additionally, you will be able to edit the kismet.conf, kismet_ui.conf and 62 kismet_drone.conf files to tweak the program advanced settings. For a 63 reference on these three configuration files, please refer to the program 64 manual. 65 663. Building Kismet 67 68 Requirements: 69 70 * the Cygwin Unix emulation environment. Install it from 71 http://www.cygwin.com/, and remember to include the development packages 72 (gcc and make at least). 73 * the kismet sources, from http://kismetwireless.net/download.shtml 74 * the AirPcap developer's pack, from 75 http://www.cacetech.com/support/downloads.htm 76 77 IMPORTANT: unpack the AirPcap developer's pack INSIDE the folder with the 78 Kismet sources. You want the AirPcap_Devpack_XXX folder to be in the same 79 folder of the Kismet makefile. The reason is that Cygwin appears to have a 80 bug which prevents proper linking if the devpack is not in the same 81 directory that Kismet is compiled in. If kismet_server.exe instantly exits 82 with no output, it is typically indicative of a linkage path problem. 83 84 Instructions: 85 86 a. run the following configure line: 87 ./configure --enable-airpcap --with-airpcap-devpack=<devpack_location> 88 Where <devpack_location> is the name of the AirPcap Developer's pack 89 folder, containing WinPcap and AirPcap 90 b. Build Kismet by typing 'make' 91 92