[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Bill Kirkland wrote:

> I got the madwifi driver working with the netgear 511.
> To capture packets in monitor mode, I use the "iwconfig ath0 mode 
> monitor" command.
> works fine.  Also use "iwconfig ath0 channel xxx" to set the channel, 
> and then start ethereal.

Thanks.  I'll update the FAQ when I have time (unfortunately, I can't do 
it on my main machine, as I haven't gotten Website Meta Language - 
http://www.thewml.org/ - to work on OS X 10.3; the release from the WML 
Web site was built with an old version of libtool that doesn't handle OS 
X correctly, and the OpenDarwin version doesn't understand that Perl 
5.8.0 is *newer* than Perl 5.6.0 or whatever it considers to be the 
minimum acceptable version).

If somebody else wants to update the FAQ, they should go ahead and do it.

> Question. Ethereal doesn't appear to display the data rate correctly.

Send us a packet with an incorrect data rate and what the data rate 
should be.  This might be a problem with Ethereal's handling of the 
particular radio header being used, or it might be a madwifi driver bug.