Kismon shows no wifi devices

[BaumGuard]

Hello,
I've installed Kismon from the AUR and put my USB wifi adapter into monitor mode:
sudo airmon-ng start wlan1
Then I've started Kismon and set URI, Username and Password. There seem to be no error messages after hitting Connect.
However, there are now no wifi devices appearing in the Network section. Also it says Devices: 0.
Is it because GPS isn't enabled (which my notebook doesn't support) and if yes, can I also somehow run Kismon without GPS?

Kismet version: 2022-08-R1
Kismon version: 1.0.1

Thank you for your help in advance!

[dreadnought]

Hi,
the AUR package was outdated, so I've updated the it to the latest Kismon version (1.0.3) now. Please download the file again and retry.

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/kismon

[BaumGuard]

I have updated Kismon now but it still doesn't work. There are again no wifi devices shown. I have also copied kismet_httpd.conf from /root/.kismet to ~/.kismet and to ~/config/.kismet but that doesn't seem to help.

[dreadnought]

Normally you don't need to copy any config files or set monitor mode manually these days. What happens when you open Kismets Web UI in the browser (http://127.0.0.1:2501) and enter the password that was written to ~/.kismet/kismet_httpd.conf? Does it show you your adapter in the Data Sources section?

[BaumGuard]

The wifi adapter is shown as wlan0mon in the section Data Sources.

[BaumGuard]

I have now installed Kismon on Arch Linux but I encounter the same problem again. When I start Kismon from the command line, I also get an error message:

21:22:04,556 INFO     [config.py:111] loading json config
21:22:04,565 DEBUG    [map.py:392] set source openstreetmap
21:22:04,600 INFO     [client_rest.py:71] Client: start http://localhost:2501
21:22:04,608 INFO     [client_rest.py:190] authenticating...
21:22:04,622 INFO     [client_rest.py:202] authenticated
devices/last-time/-1670790125/devices.ekjson
21:22:04,688 INFO     [networks.py:110] Loading networks.json
21:22:04,689 INFO     [networks.py:131] Total networks 0
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/kismon/core.py", line 287, in queues_handler
    self.queue_handler(server_id)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/kismon/core.py", line 205, in queue_handler
    if data['kismet.common.location.fix'] == 0 or data['kismet.common.location.geopoint'] == [0, 0]:
KeyError: 'kismet.common.location.fix'
devices/last-time/-2/devices.ekjson

Kismon seems to connect to Kismet but doesn't show any network devices.

[pinoverclock]

Add this function before the build function to the PKGBUILD:

prepare() {
cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}/${pkgname}"
sed -i "s/ if data\['kismet.common.location.fix'\] == 0 or data\['kismet.common.location.geopoint'\] == \[0, 0\]:/ if data\['kismet.common.location.geopoint'\] == \[0, 0\]:/" core.py
for file in core.py networks.py; do
sed -i "s/'kismet.common.seenby.last_time'/'kismet_common_seenby.last_time'/g;
s/'kismet.common.seenby.num_packets'/'kismet_common_seenby_num_packets'/g;
s/'kismet.common.seenby.signal'/'kismet_common.seenby_signal'/g;
s/'kismet.common.signal.type'/'kismet_common_signal_type'/g;
s/'kismet.common.seenby.uuid'/'kismet_common_seenby_uuid'/g;
s/'kismet.common.signal.last_signal'/'kismet_common_signal_last_signal'/g;
s/'kismet.device.base.macaddr'/'kismet_device_base_macaddr'/g;
s/'kismet.device.base.seenby'/'kismet_device_base_seenby'/g;
s/'kismet.common.signal.last_signal'/'kismet_common_signal_last_signal'/g;
s/'kismet.common.signal.max_signal'/'kismet_common_signal_max_signal'/g;
s/'kismet.common.signal.min_signal'/'kismet_common_signal_min_signal'/g;
s/'kismet.common.signal.type'/'kismet_common_signal_type'/g;
s/'kismet.device.base.channel'/'kismet_device_base_channel'/g;
s/'kismet.device.base.crypt'/'kismet_device_base_crypt'/g;
s/'kismet.device.base.first_time'/'kismet_device_base_first_time'/g;
s/'kismet.device.base.last_time'/'kismet_device_base_last_time'/g;
s/'kismet.device.base.location'/'kismet_device_base_location'/g;
s/'kismet.device.base.macaddr'/'kismet_device_base_macaddr'/g;
s/'kismet.device.base.manuf'/'kismet_device_base_manuf'/g;
s/'dot11.device.advertised_ssid_map'/'dot11_device_advertised_ssid_map'/g;
s/'dot11.device'/'dot11_device'/g;
s/'dot11.advertisedssid.ssid'/'dot11_advertisedssid_ssid'/g;
s/'dot11.advertisedssid.crypt_set'/'dot11_advertisedssid_crypt_set'/g;
s/'dot11.device.last_beaconed_ssid'/'dot11_device_last_beaconed_ssid'/g;
s/'dot11.device.last_beaconed_ssid'/'dot11_device_last_beaconed_ssid'/g;
s/'dot11.device.typeset'/'dot11_device_typeset'/g" $file
done
}

And recreate the package, that should make it work