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Old 08-30-2001   #10 (permalink)
 
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may be more than that

It's been discussed in other threads but... The card you've got may NOT be capable of going fully promiscuous (sp?). Depending on what you read it's either a firmware issue or a driver issue. I'm no sure I've seen a post yet form someone with a LUCENT card who's been able to sniff more than their own traffic. If they did I believe they were using an older version of the firmware than what's currently available on the WEB site. I've heard that older versions enabled this ability but any time I've been given revision numbers or dates for the code it's been older than what I've found for download out there.

IF someone has the older code, and I know someone must, for the Lucent Gold cards please send it to me and I'll mirror it on my site for download. Um, after I confirm it works for this purpose though :-)

In short - it may not be (just) the switch that's causing problems but it may (also) be your card. Wireless vendors don't want you sniffing. The Prism based cards CAN be used for this but NOT in Windows since the drivers apparently prevent it. In Linux the ability has been restored with patches that are available. That means two cards and two OS unless a firmware revision that works for the Lucent can be found...
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