On Sep 23, 2003, at 10:39 AM, spookytooth@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I am trying to sniff my home wireless LAN to see how secure/insecure
it is and
was looking for some pointers on doing this. I have Ethereal 0.9.13a
set up
on a WIN XP machine that has a Toshiba Wireless LAN Mini PCI Card, but
cant
seem to sniff packets.
"Can't seem to sniff packets" meaning "you try to capture on that
interface, but no packets are captured"?
This is probably a WinPcap problem or a problem with the driver for the
card. Try it with WinDump and, if that also doesn't work, it's
definitely either a Winpcap or driver problem (and, given that it's a
wireless card, I suspect it's a driver problem - Windows drivers for
wireless cards appear to be complete crap when it comes to supporting
packet capture), in which case you should ask the WinPcap developers
about it:
http://winpcap.polito.it/contact.htm
although, if it's a driver problem, there may not be anything they, or
anybody other than the company (Microsoft or Toshiba) who supply the
driver, can do to help.
