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Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Wireless toolbar in Wireshark 3.0

From: "Maynard, Chris" <Christopher.Maynard@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2019 15:57:27 +0000
> -----Original Message-----
> It is much more convenient to have some more control using the toolbar than
> make magic in the console ;-)

I agree.

> I haven't tried capturing on Windows with npcap yet but as I can see, there's
> very little cards supported.
> I some years back I desperately wanted to do it on Windows, but it was never a
> vital option ;-)

I'm not sure how up-to-date the https://secwiki.org/w/Npcap/WiFi_adapters page is.  For example, my Wireless network card is the "Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 8260" card and I've been able to capture WiFi traffic in monitor mode just fine using WlanHelper.exe, despite that page indicating that it doesn't work.  Of course my driver version is slightly newer than the one listed there, being 20.70.6.1 instead of 20.70.1.1, so perhaps that's the reason.  Or possibly it didn't work with older versions of npcap, so I'd recommend trying it with the latest available version, currently 0.9983 from https://nmap.org/npcap/.

For more information on configuring "Wireless Capture on Windows", I'll refer you to Jasper Bongertz's Blog post of the same name here: https://blog.packet-foo.com/2019/04/wireless-capture-on-windows/

- Chris













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