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People are dumb
Join Date: Aug 2002
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I'm with you on this one! But I think it has to do with the fact that the windows kernel is "set in stone" so to speak. Windows uses a "middle man" (API is it?) so that it makes everything simpler to code. Linux on the other hand gives you the blueprint to the internal workings of it's kernel thus allowing support to be written directly for that piece of hardware.
Anyways this is the way I understand it. If anybody that really knows would care to share please do.  
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Between that and the fact that ol’ Bill won’t give out the source code. There are also a whole bunch of dlls and other stuff that the drivers read. Ethereal for windows does a monitor mode using the Pcap, but I don’t know if it can be changed to work when your are not associated with a network. It would be cool to have a program like kismet for windows that can do all of the intrusion detection and read packets without being connected to the AP. But it would probably end up being in a permanent dysfunctional alpha state like Airsnort for windows.
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It is the closed source problem. For instance, ISS does have a monitor mode driver for Orinoco's (and their other supported cards) for Wireless Scanner. I don't know it for a fact, but my understanding is that they made an agreement with MS ($$) to get ahold of the applicable Windows source so they could write the drivers.
Can anyone verify that one way or the other?
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