Ethereal-users: RE: [Ethereal-users] Problem capturing using Cisco's Aironet 340wireless card

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From: "Joshua Wright" <Joshua.Wright@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 15:51:33 -0400
I believe the Windows drivers for the Aironet cards don't support promiscuous mode, which would result in a limited ability to capture with that card.  Notably, the Linux drivers for this card aren't any better.

Even without promiscuous mode support, you should see broadcast and multicast traffic on the Aironet interface.  Did you try to capture for a few minutes, or only a few seconds?

-Joshua Wright
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> I'm running ethereal version .9.13a on windows XP with Cisco 
> Aironet 340
> WLAN card. I've the latest version of Wincap driver, I see 
> traffic over my
> wired LAN ( 3COM on board adapter), but un able to see 
> traffic over the
> Wireless device.
> 
> Is Cisco's Aironet 340 card supported?
> Do I need to install anything else to get the wireless card to work?