Re: 802.11 "monitor mode" issues

Sam Leffler <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Organization Errno Consulting
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Monday 23 February 2004 08:41 am, Adams, Kevin wrote:
> Sam,
>
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> I tried it and did not see ANY debug info this time.  I think that's a good
> thing.  But on the 'ifconfig' output, the 'status' field stated that it was
> 'associated'.  Just an observation.
>
> Also, am I to assume that the 'monitor mode' itself, does not increment
> thru the channels, it has to be done via the 'ifconfig' or ioctl in a
> program?

Correct.  kismet or similar will scan channels or you can do it manually with 
ifconfig (something I routinely do--start a tcpdump or ethereal and then go 
to another window and switch channels).

	Sam

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