Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Monitoring with Madwifi and how to display 11A data rates w

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 12:31:14 -0700
Bill Kirkland wrote:


I got the madwifi driver working with the netgear 511.
To capture packets in monitor mode, I use the "iwconfig ath0 mode monitor" command. works fine. Also use "iwconfig ath0 channel xxx" to set the channel, and then start ethereal.
Thanks. I'll update the FAQ when I have time (unfortunately, I can't do it on my main machine, as I haven't gotten Website Meta Language - http://www.thewml.org/ - to work on OS X 10.3; the release from the WML Web site was built with an old version of libtool that doesn't handle OS X correctly, and the OpenDarwin version doesn't understand that Perl 5.8.0 is *newer* than Perl 5.6.0 or whatever it considers to be the minimum acceptable version). 

If somebody else wants to update the FAQ, they should go ahead and do it.


Question. Ethereal doesn't appear to display the data rate correctly.
Send us a packet with an incorrect data rate and what the data rate should be. This might be a problem with Ethereal's handling of the particular radio header being used, or it might be a madwifi driver bug.