Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] unable to see radiotap header

From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 13:13:47 -0700

On Apr 7, 2009, at 12:44 PM, Aneeq Mahmood wrote:

Well i used
iwconfig wlan0 mode monitor

and what i was interested in looking radiotap header inside wireshark but i hardly caught any packets despite having an Ap feets away.

the question hence is how to see radiotap header  with wireshark :s

That sounds like two problems:

	1) not capturing many packets;

	2) not seeing radiotap headers.

I can't address the first problem - that's probably either a driver issue or an adapter issue.

For the second problem, you *might* have to set the "monitor_type" parameter to 3. What version of the kernel are you using?