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Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Wireless Packet Sniffer

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 11:18:09 -0800
On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 11:48:28AM -0500, Hu, Guangping wrote:
> I am trying to capture 802.11 wireless packet using cisco 350 adapter,
> I could not see that the wireless traffic has been captured. 
> 
> By the way, I am using w2k OS.

	http://winpcap.polito.it/misc/faq.htm#Q-17

"Wireless adapters are not granted to work: some of them are not
detected, other don't support promiscuous mode.  In the best case,
WinPcap is able to see an Ethernet emulation and not the real transiting
packets."