On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 09:23, Mathieu Lacage wrote: > > The madwifi driver supplies, in monitor mode, an ARPHRD_ type of > > ARPHRD_IEEE80211_PRISM. That ARPHRD_ value is *NOT* supported by any > > libpcap releases prior to 0.7.2. If your Linux distribution comes with a > > pre-0.7.2 version of libpcap, then Ethereal will probably be linked with > > it, and will therefore be unable to capture in monitor mode on an Atheros > > interface; you would have to get a newer version of libpcap. > > Actually, I took care of this by removing the installed libpcap and > installing a libpcap 0.8 before rebuilding my ethereal (the abuot dialog > indeed shows libpcap 0.8) but this does not seem to change anything to > the output of ethereal in promicuous mode. I believe I need to figure > out how the radio header is supposed to be transfered to userspace to > debug this.
Stupid me. It works now: you need to set the device in monitor mode, create a network device from this device and capture in promiscuous mode. thanks for your help, Mathieu -- Mathieu Lacage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Ethereal-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ethereal.com/mailman/listinfo/ethereal-users
