On Wed, 17 Jul 2019 20:53:24 +0200 Matthias Apitz <[email protected]> wrote:
> El día miércoles, julio 17, 2019 a las 08:26:02p. m. +0200, Vladimir Botka > escribió: > > > > I installed wireshark-2.6.5_2 in my FreeBSD (CURRENT from December last > > > year). I tried to enable from > > > View --> [x] Wireless Toolbar > > > but this gives an error about "Failed to initialize ws80211" in the GUI > > > and I can not set the channel or Frequency. Is this not possible with > > > FreeBSD? > > > > FreeBSD is not needed to analyse the the problem. > > Use whatever system is able > > to set wifi card into the "monitor" mode and sniff the packets first. The > > link below is complete how to do it > > https://wiki.wireshark.org/CaptureSetup/WLAN > > When you got the data analyse it with wireshark. The captured data might > > grow > > fast. > > I only have FreeBSD laptops (and an older Ubuntu) and the question was > not if FreeBSD is needed, but if FreeBSD is *able* to capture Wifi. > Thanks > matthias Yes. FreeBSD is able to capture Wifi. Find below the link to the BSD chapter. https://wiki.wireshark.org/CaptureSetup/WLAN#A.2ABSD Cheers, -vlado
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