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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user]  Re: wlan0 promiscuous mode
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Dominic Kexel wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:17:18 +0100
> Miernik <public@public.miernik.name> wrote:
>
>   
>> Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> Does anyone know how to put my USB wireless network adapter into
>>> promiscuous mode so I can see everything that's happening wirelessley
>>> on my network in wireshark?
>>>       
>> ifconfig eth1 promisc
>>
>> But at least tcpdump puts the interface into promiscous mode
>> automatically, so there is a chance that wireshark does the same.
>>
>>
>>     
>
> Another way is to use airmon-ng from the aircrack-ng package:
>
> airmon-ng start wlan0
>
>
>   
Or, depnending on your driver, you could try:
ifconfig wlan1 down
iwconfig wlan1 mode monitor
ifconfig wlan1 up
airodump-ng wlan0

This is assuming you have the wireless-tools emerged.