Anyone getting the raspbian kismet to work?

[wsanders]

I have not found any recent discussions on this. I've done an "apt-get install kismet" from the standard source but I can't get kismet to recognize the wifi module I have. The wifi module is the Ralink RT5370 usb stick sold by SparkFun (lsusb ID 148f:5370 Ralink Technology, Corp. RT5370 Wireless Adapter.)

I get an error "FATAL: Unknown capture source type '[driver I try]' in source '[driver],wlan0,[either Ralink,ralink, or none]'" from all permutations of source and "Ralink,ralink, or none" for the 3rd param and where [driver] is anything I see in my lsmod output:

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rt2800lib              80336  1 rt2800usb
snd_seq                55484  0 
snd_seq_device          6469  1 snd_seq
rt2x00usb              11661  1 rt2800usb
snd_timer              20998  2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
rt2x00lib              44907  3 rt2x00usb,rt2800lib,rt2800usb
mac80211              329899  3 rt2x00lib,rt2x00usb,rt2800lib
cfg80211              212241  2 mac80211,rt2x00lib
crc_ccitt               1541  1 rt2800lib
rfkill                 19784  2 cfg80211

Has anyone gotten the packaged kismet to work with a realtek chip set? The kismet shipped is ancient ( 2008.05.R1), next step is to install from source I guess. Or, is there a better more recent wlan sniffer out there?

TIA ----w

[fruitoftheloom]

I believe it is to old to old and out of date, alternatives in the Raspbian Wheezy repository are:

netsniff-ng
wireshark

[DougieLawson]

airmon-ng works with the RT5370.