If this is a 650 that supports 802.11g or 802.11a, it uses an Atheros
chipset. The Windows DLink driver for this chipset does not support
promiscuous mode, which is required to get Ethereal to work properly.
Without promiscuous support, you can only see virtual Ethernet frames
to/from the client host (the 802.3 frame headers are manufactured by the
driver). I have been unable to find any freeware driver for Windows that
supports the Atheros chipsets. There are proprietary drivers that support
Atheros promiscuous mode, but they come bundled with commercial wifi
analyzers that cost thousands of dollars. There *is* at least one freeware
Atheros driver for Linux (Google for "madwifi"). It sits over a proprietary
binary hardware adaptation layer written by a programmer under contract to
Atheros, which provides limited access to specialized chip functions such as
promiscuous mode. The contractor has so far shown no interest in porting the
HAL layer to Windows (no surprise there, it's a Linux project).
"mikez" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> hi
> can anyone tell me which snifer that supports 802.11 frames I can use for
> dlink dwl-650 card. I've tried to use ethereal but it doesn't see 802.11
> frames (neither under win xp nor freebsd).
> and my second question is which tool similar to netstumbler will work with
> dwl-650. netstumbler doesn't work, none of tools frop bsd-airtools neither
>
> thx
> michal
>
>
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