On Nov 1, 2009, at 1:40 PM, Raymond Jender wrote:
I do not have Airpcap. It's a little pricey for me right now. I am
in a Wi-Fi learning mode right now in preparation for certifying
(CWNA/CWSP). Is there some open source equivalent to Airpcap? Or
some freeware software?
Yes. There's a freeware product called "Linux" (well, it usually goes
under names such as "Ubuntu" and "Fedora" and...); if you run that on
your PC, you'll probably find it much easier to capture on 802.11
networks. Other freeware products that do better have names such as
"FreeBSD", "NetBSD", "OpenBSD", "DragonFly BSD", "PC-BSD", etc..
Unfortunately, there's no freeware *for Windows* that will make this
work better.
And I could not find where the "802.11 channel" option is in
Wireshark?
There isn't one, at present, unless you have AirPcap (not even on
UN*Xes such as Linux or *BSD).
