Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Cisco Aironet 340/350 on Windows

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 12:11:08 -0700
On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 07:44:04PM +0200, Ulf Bertilsson wrote:
> I belive the drivers don't support this.
> Think you need linux platform for your objectives.

(Sufficiently recent versions of) Linux or (sufficiently recent versions
of) FreeBSD, actually.  The FAQ item at

	http://www.ethereal.com/faq.html#q4.21

says you need

	Linux, with a 2.4.6 or later kernel

or

	FreeBSD 4.5 or later.

Ethereal (like tcpdump, and other programs using libpcap/WinPcap) is at
the mercy of the device drivers and the rest of the OS for
packet-capture services.

Ethereal on other platforms can *read* 802.11 captures taken with other
platforms or with some other applications, but it can't *itself* capture
on 802.11 devices.