Intel 5100 promiscuous mode
 

Hello! I was wondering if anyone knows (and/or how I can find out) if an intel 5100 agn card supports promiscuous mode. If so, I would like to know how to set it up so it will promiscuously capture.

I'm using fedora 11 with a 2.6.30-something kernel.

Here's the relevant portion of lspci:
I'm on a Thinkpad T400. Any help would be appreciated.
I've used iw to make a virtual monitor interface, but if I capture in wireshark, I don't really want a bunch of confusing IEEE raw mystery packets.

ANY help is, well, helpful ;)

Howdy,

Try:

then:


and look for:


Then turn it off with:

cheers

kbp

well, for starters, it's a wlanX interface. I tried the commands, but replace ethX with wlan0. This appeared not to do anything :( I _do_ in fact get the PROMISC, but it doesn't appear to help. :(

I went into wireshark after enabling promiscuous capture in this manner, and the only things I got were STP Conf.root packets and arp+tcp that were with my ip. I loaded google on my desktop connected to the same network - no packets show up. Therefore, I don't think promiscuous capture appears to be running.

any other ideas?

What capture filter are you using ?

I hadn't specified any at all. Are they specified by default in the development version? I'll check...

If you hadn't selected one then you should be getting everything, the predefined filters should still be in the dev version

cheers

hmm... well, if wireshark isn't the problem, and I've tried setting the wireless card to promiscuous mode (even though wireshark does that automatically) I guess it just means my Intel 5100 just doesn't work promiscuously. I know something is set for promiscuous mode when it goes into monitor... is there any way to convert the IEEE into comprehendable packet types?

Intel 5100 agn and live cd wifiway 1.0 ... with promiscuous mode working.