[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] wlan monitor mode

[From: Samuel Ortiz]

On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 10:15:23PM +0100, ext M?d?ric RIBREUX wrote:

> When I try to put the wlan interface in monitor mode ("iwconfig wlan0
> mode Monitor" as root), it seems to work (no error messages) but, if I
> launch iwconfig wlan0, the mode is still fixed to Auto !
I have to verify that.

> So what about this ? How have you been able to really put it under
> monitor mode ?
It is really in monitor mode, whatever iwconfig tells, if you're running a 51-13 firmware.

 
> A second question: How to test the monitor mode with tcpdump ?
tcpdump -X -i wlan0

Cheers,
Samuel.