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Old 07-27-2006   #15 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Dutch
Thats depended on the kernel, and on the chipset manufacturers.
Kernels <= 2.6.11 has fairly good support for Wireless cards.
Hermes cards are also supported by the kernel included drivers, albeit without RF-mon support. You need to patch and compile for that.

Actually that's not true anymore. I am not sure at what revision the kernel started allowing you to compile in rfmon with hermes, but I know that 2.6.16 does. You can either use the module for hermes or compile right into the kernel and rfmon works perfectly.
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