>> My current understanding for both Sniffer Pro with wireless option and Airopeek is that they use Cisco 340
cards and our friendly Orinoco/Lucent cards won't work. <<

As of today, that appears to be correct. It seems as though both sniffer manufacturers have included their own "tweaked" drivers which allows for 802.11 sniffing. I had to replace the default Cisco Aironet 340 driver with Wildpackets' version of the same driver.

In addition to the Cisco, there is one other card that supposedly works. I can't remember the name, but it's not the Lucent.

>> So unless we drop to Unix and play with that OS what options are currently available for Win users with Orinoco/Lucent cards to sniff traffic? <<

I've tried everything available, and found nothing else that worked. Rather than waste time setting up a completely different OS on the hopes that *maybe* it might be able to sniff, I decided to drop the C-Note for a Cisco card instead. My config:

Sony Vaio Picturebook (micro notebook)
Cisco Aironet 340 card (for Sniffing), Lucent Orinoco Gold (for stumbling)
Windows ME & Win2k

-Toomer