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

[From: Collin R. Mulliner]

I can confirm that monitor mode works!

packaged wireless tools are available here:
http://www.mulliner.org/nokia770/

tcpdump is in the wiki, I'll try to add dsniff ASAP :)

Collin

On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 23:57 +0200, Samuel Ortiz wrote:
> 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.
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