Re: MAINTAINER UPDATE net/kismet

I'm working on this

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  Sent from a phone, apologies for poor formatting.

On 17 January 2026 16:20:58 Sebastian Reitenbach <sebastia@l00-bugdead-prods.de> wrote:

Hi,

attached a looong overdue update of Kismet. This is a whole rewrite, and more or less a complete new software, compared to the nearly 10 year old version we currently have. 

Besides Wifi, now a lot of other wireless protocols can be detected.

Tested capture sources:

 * OpenBSD Wifi (tested with athn)

 * NRF51822 (BTLE) (tested with with a Adafruit BTLE Friend, with NordicRF Sniffer firmware)

 * RTL ADSB (tested with RTL-SDR Blog v3)

 * RTL 433 (tested with RTL-SDR Blog v3)

Many other protocols are enabled, but untested, due to lack of hardware.

Below configure summary of what's enabled/supported:

Configuration complete:
         Compiling for: openbsd7.8 (x86_64)
           C++ Library: stdc++
      Protobuf Library: disabled
   Installing as group: wheel
       Installing into: /usr/local
          Setuid group: _kismet        Prelude  SIEM : no
            PCRE regex: libpcre2
 Websocket datasources: yes
LibCapability (enhanced
   privilege dropping): n/a (only Linux)
  Linux Wi-Fi capture : n/a (only Linux)
         Linux Netlink: n/a (only Linux)
  Linux NetworkManager: n/a (only Linux)
   Linux HCI Bluetooth: n/a (only Linux)
 OpenBSD Wi-Fi capture: yes
   OSX/Darwin capture : n/a (only OSX/Darwin)
         nRF MouseJack: yes
       TI CC 2540 BTLE: yes
     TI CC 2531 Zigbee: yes
         Ubertooth One: no (libubertooth, libbtbb, or libusb-1.0 not available)
         NRF51822 BTLE: yes
       NRF52840 Zigbee: yes
  NXP KW41Z BLE/Zigbee: yes
   Freaklabs Zigbee V2: yes
          RZ KILLERBEE: yes
        RADVIEW Serial: yes
         Radiacode USB: yes
        Python Modules: no (deprecated)
    RTL-SDR RTL_433 V2: yes
       RTL-SDR ADSB V2: yes
        ANTSDR DroneID: yes
         bladeRF-wiphy: no (bladeRF support not explicitly enabled)
     Hak5 WiFi Coconut: no (Hak5 WiFi Coconut not explicitly enabled)
 lm-sensors monitoring: n/a (only Linux)
        Built-in Debug: partial - Missing libdw or libbfd will not print full stacks on crash

it requires the new comms/rtl_433 port I sent previously Today to ports@ as RUN_DEPENDS.

patch attached.

Any feedback, test reports etc. or even OKs welcome.

cheers,

Sebastian