Re: [Ethereal-users] Fink/10.3/Airport Question

[David Darcy <darcyd@xxxxxxx>]

Yes I'm sorry, Extreme and 11g wireless. I haven't been able to get it 
to run in promiscuous mode, so I guess I'll have to wait until someone 
comes up with some enabled OS X drivers. Thank you! david

On Jun 24, 2004, at 11:51, Guy Harris wrote:

> David Darcy said:
> > Hello. Having just discovered the wonderful world of fink, I finally
> > got ethereal to compile and install on my Mac 10.3 OS. However, I have
> > an airport express card, is it true that this card can't sniff?
>
> "Airport Express" is the fits-in-a-power-supply-pod 802.11g base 
> station
> and AirTunes audio station; it's not a card.
>
> Did you mean "Airport Extreme"?  If so, then it *might* run in 
> promiscuous
> mode, but the OS X drivers don't support putting it in monitor mode 
> (the
> usual mode for 802.11 packet capture if you're trying to listen to 
> other
> machines), so there are limits on the amount of sniffing you'll be 
> able to
> do.