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Old 01-20-2008   #1 (permalink)
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promiscuous capture under windows
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?
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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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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?
Not with that card. However Commview for wifi has a list of cards that are supported with it's driver that will put the card into monitor mode. The only choice is a Airpcap compatible card which will cost you money also. They both cost upwards of $500 however commview does have a demo mode so you can try it out before you buy it.

My suggestion is to go to linux with a compatible card and you'll be in monitor mode for free.

BTW, promiscuous mode is typically associated with wired card. For wireless cards it's usually called monitor mode.

I use the Airlink AWN108 which has the Atheros chipset and works well with Commview.
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