Ethereal-users: RE: [Ethereal-users] disassociating with AP after few minutes

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From: "Joshua Wright" <Joshua.Wright@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 13:25:55 -0500
The cisco.com drivers do not provide RFMON functionality any longer.  Try putting the card into promiscuous mode manually ("ifconfig eth0 up promisc") and watch your statistics with "iwconfig eth0" to see if you do get disassociated (AP will be listed as ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff).

-Joshua Wright
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Johnson & Wales University
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> I am using Cisco 350 drivers downloaded from their
> website and not something that comes with kernel. Do
> you think this is the problem I am having when I use
> the card in promiscuous mode? Because otherwise there
> is no problem at all. Say for example, when I am on
> internet working as a normal user. Also, I have tried
> to put Cisco 350 card in RFMON mode but it didn't
> work. Thanks a lot.