after using these 2 apps without much gain or learnig something new, when i check the available connections the only available are my adhoc and not any wlan although my computer detect alot of wireless connections.
kismet requires closing by ctrl+q and not the X and thats what i did,,and for aircrack i just closed xterm and restarted my phone but still have the same problem..how can i fix that ? thanks

try to go to offline mode and then normal mode
also can try load and exit kismet again

I recall reading somewhere you need to reboot to resolve this one, though technically I can't see why ifconfig wlan0 down followed by removing the network module wouldn't do the job just as well.

wait, you're saying it's still not working after a reboot? try typing iwconfig as root, maybe some clue there.

here is when i yped ifconfig

ifconfig
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:139 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:139 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:10198 (9.9 KiB) TX bytes:10198 (9.9 KiB)

phonet0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 15-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MTU:4000 Metric:1
RX packets:3650 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:356 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:69872 (68.2 KiB) TX bytes:10404 (10.1 KiB)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 0CD:EF:79:2F:24
inet addr:192.168.1.2 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::edd:efff:fe79:2f24/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:220 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:238 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:161021 (157.2 KiB) TX bytes:32358 (31.5 KiB)

wmaster0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-1F-DF-AE-6F-5D-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

/home/user # ifconfig

Did you put wlan0 back to Managed mode?

i didn't change anything, all i did was opening and closing those 2 apps

kismet is supposed to back the wireless interface to managed mode if closed properly

As said in
http://david.gnedt.eu/blog/2010/05/1...-for-the-n900/
To close Kismet use the Quit menu entry or press Ctrl+C. (Don't use the X button as it wouldn't restore the network managers function)

now the phone detectss some wireless connections around me but my pc whic is now beside the phone detects more connections, is it relevant ?

Maybe it just has better wifi range