Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] promiscuous mode on Cisco Aironet 352, WinXP

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From: "Guy Harris" <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 10:22:07 -0700 (PDT)
Jack Coates said:
> Windows XP, using WinPCap 3.0 and Ethereal 0.10.3 on an IBM T40 with a
> Cisco Aironet 352 mini-PCI card (using Microsoft's driver, version
> 3.5.13.0).
>
> I can see the Cisco card and two VMWare virtual interfaces in Ethereal,
> but I can only capture if the built-in Intel wired card is used.
>
> Is there a promiscuous mode enabled driver for Cisco Aironet 352 on XP?

Yes.  Two of them.

The bad news is that they're Linux and BSD drivers. :-)

Wireless capturing on Windows doesn't work very well, especially in
promiscuous mode, probably due to driver problems:

    http://www.ethereal.com/faq.html#q5.41

    http://www.ethereal.com/faq.html#q5.42

and even when it does work, you'll probably see only data frames, not
management or control frames:

    http://www.ethereal.com/faq.html#q5.37