Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] wlan : PCMCIA Cisco Aironet 340 Control Frame Capture

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 20:20:30 -0700
On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 12:01:16PM +0200, P Laurent wrote:
> I am a student begynner with Ethereal and wlan monitoring under Linux
> (Mandrake 10).  I manage to capture management (mainly beacon) and data
> frames on a 802.11b network but no control frame.

A Google for

	aironet "control frame" rfmon

found this message:

	http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/dev/aironet/2002-q1/0206.html

which suggests that it might be possible to capture at least some
control frames with Aironet cards.  However, the Wildpackets driver that
comes with AiroPeek might be doing something that the Linux driver isn't
doing.

I don't know whether anybody's fixed that or not.