Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Intel 4965
From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:31:54 -0800

On Feb 20, 2008, at 9:17 PM, Fat Ball wrote:

Who can let me know how to activate the interface of Intel 4965 upon wireshark?

On what OS?

Under Windows, wireless adapters don't work very well (except maybe, to a limited degree, on Vista, if the driver is a native 802.11 driver, and even that doesn't give you monitor mode).

Under Linux, you'd want a system with a 2.6.18 or greater kernel, with the mac80211 wireless stack:

	http://www.intel.com/support/wireless/wlan/sb/CS-025330.htm

and

	http://intellinuxwireless.org/index.php?p=iwlwifi

says of the iwlwifi driver for those adapters that it's been in the mainstream kernel since 2.6.24.

Under OpenBSD, you'd need a version of the OS with the iwn driver. NetBSD appears to have picked up that driver this month, but that probably means it's only in -current. It appears it's being ported to FreeBSD as well:

	http://www.clearchain.com/wiki/Iwn