[X-Unix] Installing kismet using Fink

Brian Medley bpm-list-osx-unix at 4321.tv
Mon Oct 11 07:44:24 PDT 2004


On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 02:39:22AM -0400, Alexandre Gauthier wrote:

> I recently (okay that would be lying -- make that a few months ago) 
> tried to install kismet using Fink. Everything seems to go well except 
> for the viha-driver, which fails to install. I tried this on many 
> different machines which all responded with the same error messages...
> 
> xerxes:~ supernaut$ fink install kismet
...
> The following additional package will be installed:
> system-viha
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
> dpkg -i 
> /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/net/system-viha_0.0.1a-3_darwin-powerpc.deb
> (Reading database ... 50179 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking system-viha (from .../system-viha_0.0.1a-3_darwin-powerpc.deb) ...
> ld: can't locate framework for: -framework WiFi
> Cannot link against the WiFi framework.
> Did you forget to install it?
> Hint: read the full description of this package.
...
> 
> 
> It seems to be complaining against a missing framework, but the details 
> seems scarce. I am posting this in hope that someone better informed 
> could enlighten me on what package this aforementionned package would be 
> part of.

http://fink.sourceforge.net/pdb/package.php/system-viha

Description:

Placeholder for Viha WiFi framework

Install this package if you have manually installed the Viha WiFi framework,
which is available as a precompiled binary from:
http://www.dopesquad.net/security/Viha-0.0.1a.tar.gz  Follow the
therein-enclosed README file for installation instructions.

You may be able to get the same info by doing a "fink info
system-viha"

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