How to capture data from a wireless adapter

26 Jun 2006 4:51 AM

vimal

Hi....

To capture data from ethernet card we have lot of tools
like ethreal and a packet capture library WinPcap.

My doubt is whether WinPcap support capturing wireless frames -with
NETGEAR WAB501 wireless adapter or Wireless PC card WAG511 v2 .
Or
do we need to write an intermediate NDIS protocol driver for this
purpose?

please comment on this topic...

thanks in advance...

vimal

26 Jun 2006 2:31 PM

Jack (MVP-Networking).

Ethernet is Ethernet, Wireless past the Card is Ethernet so the combo
ethreal/WinPcap should work provided the specific card is compatible), you
might want to add this to the mix too,
http://home.comcast.net/~jay.deboer/airsnare/
Jack (MVP-Networking).

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> Hi....
>
>
> To capture data from ethernet card we have lot of tools
> like ethreal and a packet capture library WinPcap.
>
> My doubt is whether WinPcap support capturing wireless frames -with
> NETGEAR WAB501 wireless adapter or Wireless PC card WAG511 v2 .
> Or
> do we need to write an intermediate NDIS protocol driver for this
> purpose?
>
> please comment on this topic...
>
> thanks in advance...
>
> vimal
>