Hey everybody!
Sadly, my first post in this forum will be a question, as I have a problem with Karma in MK4 (FW 2.8.1). But first of all: I really like the Pineapple, thanks for creating it :)
However, here's my problem, hopefully you guys can help me (maybe simply help me understand what went wrong):
As I understand it, enabling Karma will put the Pineapple in what I call "Jasager-Mode", i.e. responding to all probe requests with a "yes", thus tricking clients into connecting to it (if they have been connected to an open wifi network). I know that this won't work for secured wifi networks, but only for open ones. When I turn Karma on, I can see quite a lot of probes in the web-frontend's status window and from time to time some poor client even connects to my pineapple.
But of course I wanted to try something different and so I decided that it was about time I connected my phone. I asked a colleague of mine to tether my phone to his (using SSID 'example' and no security in Android) and then kill the AP. I then had an AP in my AP list that was (of course) not in range. I then waited for the SSID 'example' to show up in the list of incoming probe requests and for the phone (HTC One, running some custom ROM with Android 4.1.2) to be connected to the Pineapple. But nothing happened. Not a single probe was sent by the phone (or captured by the pineapple).
I then tried to change the Karma-SSID to 'example' and the phone found it immediately, connected to it and everything worked as expected.
I read somewhere that Android > 4.0.4 does not probe for wifi networks anymore - to test this, I wiped the dust off my old HTC Desire (Android 2.2) and tried the above once more (with the same result).
Long story short, here are my questions:
Is Karma supposed to do what I think it should do?
Is Android really not sending any probes?
Why can/must I change the Karma-SSID? Shouldn't it do that automagically?
What can I do to trick the Androids into connecting to my Pineapple?
I hope I could make my questions clear. Should you need any additional information, please feel free to ask.
Thanks in advance!
P.S: I tried searching for the solution (in this forum and beyond), but could not find anything useful (except maybe the Android 4.0.4 hint). Should I've missed the answer and thus created a redundant post, I apologize (and would appreciate a link).
Greetings from Germany - steps