Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Not seeing 802.11 specific traffic

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 11:35:53 -0700
On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 12:49:11PM -0400, cissp wrote:
> I can see normal IP traffic but I can not see any 802.11 specific 
> packets (to include the 4 optional addresses) using 0.9.6. Any ideas? 

	http://www.ethereal.com/faq.html#q5.23

> Also, what in Ethereal puts a DLink 650 card into monitor mode

Ethereal does not put *ANY* cards into monitor mode.  That has to be
done outside Ethereal.

> (it is not broadcasting anything, verified with Etherpeek)? I am currenlty 
> running Suse 8.0 with standard install of pcmcia-cs and wlan-ng 0.1.13 
> devel 1.

See the part of the aforementioned FAQ that discusses "Cards using the
Prism II chip set".  0.1.13 requires patches.