Rijndal Groeber wrote: > I currently own a 3com 3crwe737a pcmcia card. > True, the windows drivers which come with it appear to ignore promiscous > mode, but the linux driver (for Symbol Spectrum 24t - which is identical) > has no problem with it. > By promiscous, as I was able to test it, I understand the ability to sniff > pachets directed to other nodes of the wireless network... I was never > able to capture ANY traffic before I got associated to an AP. > If you mean something else, _please_ tell me. I'm pretty sure (99.8%) I've sniffed traffic from one client to the AP without being associated to it, once i used this to actually get onto someone's network - their security-measure was just to require the AP's SSID, that did not get broadcasted - but i got it in cleartext when they booted up a computer with wlan, defined my card to use that AP and voila i was in.. (NOTE: this spesific incident was work, I did nothing illegal;) As far as i know, most of (all?) the linux-drivers for wlan support promiscous mode, at least pcmcia-cs package drivers.. btw, was there much tweaking to get the 3com card working? And did you get WEP working on it? I'm currently using a AirWay (seem's to be a D-Link card with another sticker) card, that i can't get working with wep - and i haven't gotten a cisco 340 card working either :( (and the ValueSystems (www.linux-wlan.com or something) driver doesen't compile, and when it does - it doesen't work properly, neither the prism-I or the prism-II driver - dlink is prismI-based) :-( -t.
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