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

[From: Samuel Ortiz]

On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, ext Collin R. Mulliner wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have dsniff and friends working ok, I don't know why airodump doesn't
> work since it should also only require pcap.
>
> Also my device seems to suck up battery quite fast during monitor mode
In monitor mode, the WLAN chipset is running at full power, of course. So,
yes, your battery will last about 3 hours if you keep on sniffing 802.11
packets.


> Why doesn't iwconfig "work" noramlly while the device is in monitor
> mode?
Because my code sucks.

Cheers,
Samuel.