Ethereal and hostAP

[tanuja ingale]

Hi,

I used Ethereal with the Dlink DWL 650 card in monitor mode 2. This brings 
down my wlan0 interface. As in, it shows

wlan0     IEEE 802.11b  ESSID:"cuairnet"
          Mode:Monitor  Frequency:2.422GHz  Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
          Bit Rate:1Mb/s   Sensitivity=1/0
          Retry min limit:8   RTS thr=2312 B   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:53/0  Signal level:-38 dBm  Noise level:-92 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:9  Invalid misc:3177   Missed beacon:0
When I disable the monitor mode, the iwconfig shows the valid AP address.
Can anyone tell me where I may have gone wrong?
Thanks
Tanuja






>Ethereal does not need any special configuration for operation with Host AP 
>driver. You just need to >get recent enough versions of libpcap and 
>Ethereal so that they have support for 802.11 frames (I >use CVS versions) 
>and then you should be able to capture frames with 802.11 headers from 
>wlan0 >when using monitor mode 2 (or 3 in CVS version to get some extra 
>Prism2 info). You will also need to >set wlan0 interface UP for the 
>capture.
>
>--
>Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA

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