Hello,
I have noticed quite a strange behaviour when trying to enable the promiscuous
mode (PM) with Wireshark (version 1.10.5):
Wireshark itself is saying that PM is enabled ("Capture Options/Capture
List/Prom. Mode" says enabled). Accordingly dmesg tells me about it: "[..]
device wlan0 entered promiscuous mode".
However, netstat and ip don't seem as convinced:
$ ip l
..
2: wlan0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> ..
..
(yes, wlan0 is the correct interface)
$ netstat -i
wlan0 1500 336406 0 3985 0 70978 0 0 0 BMRU
(BMRU are the flags, P is not amongst them)
I am also not convinced, since I am not able to see any other packets than the
ones directed at me or broadcasted ones.
Some information about my system:
$ uname -a
Linux . 3.12.7-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Jan 10 08:50:35 CET 2014 x86_64
GNU/Linux
$ lspci -vvn|grep 43 -A7
04:00.0 0280: 14e4:432b (rev 01)
Subsystem: 106b:008d
Physical Slot: 3
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort-
<MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 256 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 18
Region 0: Memory at df200000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
--
Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge
Kernel modules: ssb
05:00.0 0c00: 11c1:5901 (rev 07) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: 11c1:5900
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort-
<MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 256 bytes
(see http://pastebin.com/puVahU19)
The wiki (http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43) mentiones that my
chip (Broadcom Corporation BCM4322, 14e4:432b) is only partially supported (in
2.6.39+). Could this be the reason for this strange behaviour or am I simply
missing something.
Thanks in advance for any advice,
kpj
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