> It's not capturing any of the RAW 802.11 frames as i had wanted it to.
>
> After the successful compilation.I checked the Ethereal "Help" button to
> ensure that its really 0.8.20 and LibpcapCVS, I ran the following
> command - 'echo "Mode: rfmon" >>/proc/driver/aironet/eth0/Config' AND
> 'ifconfig eth0 up'.
>
> I then went to this place with lots of Beacon Signals (I checked with
> airopeek's demo.got lots of signals), but ethereal dun seem to be
> catching anything.Even running tcpdump is quiet.
That's tcpdump from CVS (or 3.7 beta), I assume.
If so, that indicates that this isn't an Ethereal issue (which is not
surprising - Ethereal just gets what libpcap gives it); as you're using
libpcap from CVS, it's probably not a libpcap issue (also not surprising
- libpcap just gets what the kernel gives it), so, given that, as per
your earlier mail, you do, in fact, have an Aironet card (so that the
"Mode: rfmon" stuff is what the driver *should* support), it's probably
a driver issue.
Do you have a 2.4.6 or later kernel?
If so, then you should probably report this to Red Hat (or check out the
Linux 802.11 Aironet driver pages at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/airo-linux/
and
http://airo-linux.sourceforge.net/
to see if they have any information about this). It might be that the
card in question doesn't support monitor mode, or something.
If not, upgrade - Javier Achirica indicated to me that you need the
2.4.6 or later kernel's Aironet driver.
