Re: [Ethereal-users] Fw: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2100 3B Network Connection - General Inquiry

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Simone Chemelli wrote:

> I noticed that nearly all Intel Wireless adapters, and for sure Centrino 
> based, are not correctly handled by Ethereal/Winpcap and many users 
> report them as not working.

As Ronnie noted, this is either a WinPcap issue, a Windows issue, or a
driver issue - Ethereal just makes a standard "pcap_open_live()" call
with the promiscuous-mode flag set or not set, depending on whether
you've requested promiscuous mode in the capture dialog.

> Thank you for contacting Intel(R) Technical Support.
>
> Please note that the drivers for all Intel(R) wireless adapters allow 
> for promiscuous mode enabling but it is not an option that the user can 
> set.  The call to set into promiscuous or sniffing mode must be made by 
> the software that requires this mode - eg the sniffer, management 
> monitor, or other application.  The call is made and the Intel driver 
> will respond by placing the adapter(s) into promiscuous mode as needed.

WinPcap's driver, as far as I know, makes the right kernel-mode NDIS
call to request promiscuous mode.  I *presume* that's what they're
referring to as "the call to set into promiscuous or sniffing mode".

The WinPcap developers would probably have to discuss this with Intel 
support.