Kismet is an 802.11 layer-2 wireless network detector, sniffer, and intrusion detection system. It will work with any wireless card that supports raw monitoring (rfmon) mode, and can sniff 802.11a/b/g/n traffic.

It can use other programs to play audio alarms for network events, read out network summaries, or provide GPS coordinates.

This package provides the following extra plugins for Kismet:
* autowep: detects the WEP key from BSSID and SSID;
* btscan: basic scan support for the 802.15.1 (Bluetooth) protocol;
* ptw: performs the Aircrack-NG PTW attack against captured data;
* spectools: imports data from the spectools spectrum analyzer;
* syslog: provides supports for alerts using standard unix syslog services.