Ethereal-users: [Ethereal-users] ethereal: capture raw 802.11 frames

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From: "Vaidyanathan Ramadurai" <VRamadurai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 18:38:57 -0500
I am trying to use ethereal  to capture raw 802.11 frames from a Lucent wavelan
802.11 card with a firmware version 6.16.
 
I installed the monitor patch to the orinoco drivers and have a 
red hat with a linux kernel 2.4.2-2. I ran the following commands:
 
iwconfig eth0 essid SOMEID mode managed
iwpriv eth0 monitor 2 7
ifconfig etho promisc up
 
I can see only beacon frames from the ethereal capture and not any 
other frames (like auth or acks)
 
I have a station that sends user-specified MAC packets. Only the 
beacons are getting detected by ethereal.
 
Could you please give me some guidance here?
 
Thanks a lot.
Vaidya.