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Old 01-20-2008   #2 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by devnill View Post
I have a linksys wusb54g usb wireless dongle, and cannot seem to get it to go into promiscuous mode under windows. I know it works in linux, but for some reason it wont capture any packets in windows XP. I've looked all over for a 3rd party driver that would let me capture packets promiscuously, but I have found nothing. Does anyone know if this is possible?
You are going to find out that ALOT of wifi chipsets do not DO promiscuous mode under windows or for that matter *NIX .

From my experience and others the cheap ones that are so abundant and easy to find won't do that mode.
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