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