On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 10:48:11AM -0700, Guy Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 03:02:58PM +0200, Marc A. Lehmann wrote:
> > I do not own a standard prism2 card, my cisco card has it's own raw mode
>
> "Cisco card"? That's presumably an Aironet card; I'm not sure that uses
> the Prism II chip.
It does, but it uses a different mac and a difefertn software interface.
"prism2-anything" tools usually don't work with it.
> Fortunately, it has its own driver, which is part of the standard
a much better driver is airo-linux.sf.net ;)
> kernel, so you don't need wlan-ng for it - *and* that driver, in the
> 2.4.6 kernel and later, supports PF_PACKET sockets and ARPHRD_IEEE80211,
> so you can just capture directly with libpcap:
Major confusion here, I think. I *can* dump fine with my aironet card
(without any 0xfffffff trailer) using my current driver (wavelan drivers
are a major chaos, though ;), I just saw the prismdump output from
somebody else. The patched tcpdump indeed works fine. I am happy ;)
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