Bug 524716

Summary:	net-libs/libpcap newer than 1.4.0 causes net-wireless/reaver-1.4-r1 to not work
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Barvinok <core>
Component:	[OLD] Library	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	AMD64
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://code.google.com/p/reaver-wps/issues/detail?id=591
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Description Barvinok 2014-10-07 18:05:19 UTC

wash utility which is a part of net-wireless/reaver dies silently instead of scanning nearby wifi spots. Developer of reaver-wps says this is because libpcap had changed some internals ( https://code.google.com/p/reaver-wps/issues/detail?id=591 ). There's no workaround provided nor fix available from the dev even though it's already 5 months since then. Supposedly the change was introduced with libpcap 1.5.x , whereas 1.4.x worked fine with reaver.
That wouldn't have been an issue had 1.4.x been still in the portage tree. But it is not. Consulted on IRC they said gentoo team could fix that.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Emerge net-libs/libpcap newer than 1.4.x
2. Emerge net-wireless/reaver
3. run /usr/bin/wash
Actual Results:  
wash utility did not work, dies quietly

Expected Results:  
wash should perform network scanning

As soon as I installed libpcap 1.3.0 everything worked. Probably 1.4.0 will also work. But of course I'd like to see a patch to reaver to make it understand the most recent libpcap out there.

Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2014-10-07 18:07:18 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 524712 ***