Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Capturing 802.11 Headers in Managed Mode
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From: Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 09:28:34 +0200
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 08:54:35AM +0200, Joerg Mayer wrote:
> While in managed (or whatever) mode, do an ifconfig rtap0 up
> (if promiscous has been compiled into the driver you have something like
> this in your /etc/modprobe.d/ipw2200: options ipw3945 rtap_iface=1.
> Now capture on the rtap0 interface. It will provide radiotap headers and
> (almost) all of the mangement frames.

I've just updated http://wiki.wireshark.org/CaptureSetup/WLAN and added
this information there as well. Thanks for bringing this omission to my
attention.

 ciao
     Joerg
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Joerg Mayer                                           <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
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