Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] driver for cisco aironet340

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 11:05:47 -0800
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 10:30:13AM +0100, Espen Sagen wrote:
> Notice that traffic will only be displayed as a normal ethernet segment, 
> no 802.11 beacon, mngmt or other signaling packets are displayed. If you 
> need this as well, I guess your solution would be to run Linux...

...or FreeBSD 4.6 or later:

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

although, if you read that, see also the "SUPPORTED CARD TYPES" section
of 

	http://www.kismetwireless.net/documentation.shtml

as it gives some details that the Ethereal FAQ currently doesn't give
(e.g., the differences between the way various versions of the Linux
Aironet drivers work).