Re: [Ethereal-users] Cisco Aironet 340/350 on Windows

["Aron Silverton" <ajs@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm not sure how I missed that in the FAQ.  I have a couple of Dell 
c600s running FreeBSD 4.4, so I guess I know what I need to do. . .

Thanks for the help.

Aron

Guy Harris wrote:

> On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 07:44:04PM +0200, Ulf Bertilsson wrote:
>
> > I belive the drivers don't support this.
> > Think you need linux platform for your objectives.
>
> (Sufficiently recent versions of) Linux or (sufficiently recent versions
> of) FreeBSD, actually.  The FAQ item at
>
> 	http://www.ethereal.com/faq.html#q4.21
>
> says you need
>
> 	Linux, with a 2.4.6 or later kernel
>
> or
>
> 	FreeBSD 4.5 or later.
>
> Ethereal (like tcpdump, and other programs using libpcap/WinPcap) is at
> the mercy of the device drivers and the rest of the OS for
> packet-capture services.
>
> Ethereal on other platforms can *read* 802.11 captures taken with other
> platforms or with some other applications, but it can't *itself* capture
> on 802.11 devices.

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