Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Getting wireless GUI to work on Linux

From: Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 00:31:15 +0200

On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 03:04:09PM -0700, Guy Harris wrote:
> 
> On May 5, 2009, at 2:50 PM, Joerg Mayer wrote:
> 
> > I intend to get the Wireless GUI (Airpcap GUI) in Wireshark to work  
> > on Linux.
> 
> Which parts of it?
> 
> Are you talking about getting the Airpcap adapter working in Linux, or  
> about supporting, for example, controlling the channel on which to  
> sniff with regular wireless adapters?

The second one: Use an existing Linux infrastructure and either libnl
or the iw command to implement the required features given a somewhat
recent kernel (I'm currently using 2.6.27 of Opensuse 11.1 and iw from
git).

 Ciao
        Joerg

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Joerg Mayer                                           <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that
works. Some say that should read Microsoft instead of technology.