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Homepage:

https://www.kismetwireless.net

License:

GPL-2

Versions

Metadata

Maintainers

• Rick Farina (zerochaos@gentoo.org) - Type: person

Upstream

• Remote IDs:
  • github: kismetwireless/kismet

<pkgmetadata>
	<maintainer type="person">
		<email>zerochaos@gentoo.org</email>
		<name>Rick Farina</name>
	</maintainer>
	<use>
		<flag name="libusb">Support libusb based capture sources such as mousejack, cc2540(ble), and nrf51822(ble)</flag>
		<flag name="mqtt">Enable MQTT support</flag>
		<flag name="pcre">Build with pcre support</flag>
		<flag name="protobuf">Support old protobuf message passing in case of remote capture sources which are not up to date.</flag>
		<flag name="rtlsdr">Enable rtlsdr based kismet capture sources</flag>
		<flag name="suid">
			Install a setuid root helper binary with limited functionality;
			this allows running kismet as a normal user, significantly
			reducing security risks
		</flag>
		<flag name="ubertooth">Enable capture source for ubertooth to sniff bluetooth low energy</flag>
		<flag name="wext">
			Enable building kismet with support for the deprecated Linux Wireless Extensions.
			This is required for some out of tree and staging drivers, and kismet has not
			been well tested with it disabled, so it defaults to on.
		</flag>
	</use>
	<upstream>
		<remote-id type="github">kismetwireless/kismet</remote-id>
	</upstream>
</pkgmetadata>

Lint Warnings

• [Warning] Ebuild 9999 uses IUSE flag 'lm-sensors' which is not documented in metadata.xml. Add the flag to metadata.xml <use> section.
• [Warning] Ebuild 9999 uses IUSE flag 'networkmanager' which is not documented in metadata.xml. Add the flag to metadata.xml <use> section.
• [Warning] Ebuild 9999 uses IUSE flag 'selinux' which is not documented in metadata.xml. Add the flag to metadata.xml <use> section.
• [Warning] Ebuild 9999 uses IUSE flag 'udev' which is not documented in metadata.xml. Add the flag to metadata.xml <use> section.
• [Warning] Ebuild 2025.09.1 uses IUSE flag 'lm-sensors' which is not documented in metadata.xml. Add the flag to metadata.xml <use> section.
• [Warning] Ebuild 2025.09.1 uses IUSE flag 'networkmanager' which is not documented in metadata.xml. Add the flag to metadata.xml <use> section.
• [Warning] Ebuild 2025.09.1 uses IUSE flag 'selinux' which is not documented in metadata.xml. Add the flag to metadata.xml <use> section.
• [Warning] Ebuild 2025.09.1 uses IUSE flag 'udev' which is not documented in metadata.xml. Add the flag to metadata.xml <use> section.
• [Warning] Ebuild 2023.07.2 uses IUSE flag 'lm-sensors' which is not documented in metadata.xml. Add the flag to metadata.xml <use> section.
• [Warning] Ebuild 2023.07.2 uses IUSE flag 'networkmanager' which is not documented in metadata.xml. Add the flag to metadata.xml <use> section.
• [Warning] Ebuild 2023.07.2 uses IUSE flag 'selinux' which is not documented in metadata.xml. Add the flag to metadata.xml <use> section.
• [Warning] Ebuild 2023.07.2 uses IUSE flag 'udev' which is not documented in metadata.xml. Add the flag to metadata.xml <use> section.
• [Warning] Missing md5-cache for version 9999. Run 'ebuild <ebuild_file> manifest' or 'egencache' to generate it.
• [Warning] Missing md5-cache for version 2025.09.1. Run 'ebuild <ebuild_file> manifest' or 'egencache' to generate it.
• [Warning] Missing md5-cache for version 2023.07.2. Run 'ebuild <ebuild_file> manifest' or 'egencache' to generate it.

USE Flags

Files

• 0001-configure.ac-bashism-fix-critical-existence-failure-.patch
• gdb
• kismet-gdb
• kismet.confd-r2
• kismet.initd-r3

Manifest