Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] How can I use Ethereal to capture wireless 802.11 signaling

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From: Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 22:28:04 +0200
On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 11:56:32PM +0800, ???? wrote:
>       My experiment environment  is :
>       Operating system :Fedora 4 and the kernel is 2.6.15
>       Wireless card:Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Connection mini PCI
> adapter(IPW2100)
>       Wireless card driver:ipw2100
>       Ethereal Version:0.10.11 ,Compiled with GTK+2.6.7,with GLib 2.6.4,with
> libpcap 0.8.3, with libz 1.2.2.2 ,with libpcre 5.0, with Net-SNMP
> 5.2.1,without ADNS.
> 
>       Can anyone help me and  tell some details how to do it ?
>       Thanks in advance.
> 
> P.S. I have read the FAQ on the website of Ethereal and set the card's mode
> to monitor but I still couldn't capture any 802.11 raw packets.

Hmm, what exactly did you try?

Step 1: activate interface
Step 2: set to monitor
Step 3: select the channel
Setp 4: start ethereal and capture on that interface

 Ciao
  Joerg
-- 
Joerg Mayer                                           <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that
works. Some say that should read Microsoft instead of technology.
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