From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LSPMx-0002lb-P6 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 05:23:15 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 50C0EE02BF; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 05:23:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.155]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E113E02BF for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 05:23:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id d23so875599fga.14 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:23:12 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=zufdsJK6FiuxrMFaeGJDPzd99ZO9DZ5YYKKvIiZOKzc=; b=ZYyymb5cOHFgGK2yf+rdttTK3Ynvqd5TzxBDugdIqLxTmxd00YaIMjMH/UBYenaox5 MVIqur6eP1AEgv2UpLiWh8EPH5x7NAJP552NFufWtH2mLHZITIE39o55ZrMfqsAF4fYR syAxWTU0iaLmvOiB2m/Pyq/9Bq8JIp+cidUEc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Nhb35BVUkAUa3tUvwT0v29mrvJfXigd9DU5/4g2D/gjz9HExKDAKvCP+AsGKSHjo8s dNEs5iRWmBYRU6ZU9SnLJn1gJz+UJCspaMo2eN69xoEbFh7iTTGk47ntmA3VKJwB6k1k /z6e9fQMGsQA+ccHZzS4QHlVe2zx8SMva9ND4= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.180.242.5 with SMTP id p5mr143039bkh.178.1233206592360; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:23:12 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20090128204629.0ea80ad2.nexenta@evil-monkey-in-my-closet.com> References: <49bf44f10901280900p33914cbci19ed49544757ee31@mail.gmail.com> <20090128171718.4D7B.1.NOFFLE@turbacz.local> <20090128204629.0ea80ad2.nexenta@evil-monkey-in-my-closet.com> Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:23:12 -0800 Message-ID: <49bf44f10901282123w6d5af17bp41626a2ec01922a3@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: wlan0 promiscuous mode From: Grant To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: fc5810b6-405f-49a0-b48c-615fdf0cbea2 X-Archives-Hash: 47188a1f90f7aa0c18abf3200d46363f >> > 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 I can't get that to work. I get: # airmon-ng start wlan0 Interface Chipset Driver wlan3 ath5k_pci - [phy0] wlan0 Ralink 2573 USB rt73usb - [phy1]/usr/sbin/airmon-ng: line 338: /sys/class/ieee80211/phy1/add_iface: No such file or directory mon0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device (monitor mode enabled on mon0) It looks like I'm supposed to have /sys/class/ieee80211/phy1/add_iface which isn't there. I've tried with net.wlan0 started and stopped. - Grant