On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:23:12 -0800 Grant <emailgr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > Does anyone know how to put my USB wireless network adapter into > >> > promiscuous mode so I can see everything that's happening wirelessley > >> > on my network in wireshark? > >> > >> ifconfig eth1 promisc > >> > >> But at least tcpdump puts the interface into promiscous mode > >> automatically, so there is a chance that wireshark does the same. > >> > >> > > > > Another way is to use airmon-ng from the aircrack-ng package: > > > > airmon-ng start wlan0 > > I can't get that to work. I get: > > # airmon-ng start wlan0 > Interface Chipset Driver > wlan3 ath5k_pci - [phy0] > wlan0 Ralink 2573 USB rt73usb - [phy1]/usr/sbin/airmon-ng: line 338: > /sys/class/ieee80211/phy1/add_iface: No such file or directory > mon0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device > (monitor mode enabled on mon0) > > It looks like I'm supposed to have /sys/class/ieee80211/phy1/add_iface > which isn't there. I've tried with net.wlan0 started and stopped. > > - Grant Your driver has to support monitor-mode. I am using an Atheros-based internal WiFi-card and an Alpha-USB-WiFi-device with Realtek-Chip. The drivers I used a while ago needed a patch to work with monitor-mode, but the recent drivers don't. Take a look at the driver-section on the aircrack-ng homepage. Maybe your driver needs to be patched. -- Dominic Kexel <nexe...@evil-monkey-in-my-closet.com>
