I have been trying to get my cisco card to work with kismet under knoppix and finally found the solution to my problem. You have to edit your kismet.conf to the following

source=cisco_wifix;eth0:wifi0, ciscosource

this should allow your card to run under kismet and airsnort. If you just want to run airsnort off of the live cd just do the following, which I got from H20_Goalie


in root session terminal type the following

ifconfig wifi0 down
ifconfig eth0 down
echo "Mode: r" >/proc/driver/aironet/eth0/Config
echo "Mode: y" >/proc/driver/aironet/eth0/Config
ifconfig eth0 up
ifconfig wifi0 up
airsnort
change card to wifi0 and driver to other

hope this helps someone!