Re: your mail

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 01:19:58PM +0530, dattatray sawat wrote:
> respected sir,
>
>                 I am using Tata indicaoms wireless modem for internet. 
>                      while scannig from my computer i got folloeing error
>
> WARNING: Using raw sockets because ppp0 is not an ethernet device. This probably won't work on Windows.
> pcap_open_live(ppp0, 100, 0, 2) FAILED. Reported error: Error opening adapter: The system cannot find the device 
> specified. (20).  Will wait 5 seconds then retry.
> pcap_open_live(ppp0, 100, 0, 2) FAILED. Reported error: Error opening adapter: The system cannot find the device 
> specified. (20).  Will wait 25 seconds then retry.
> Call to pcap_open_live(ppp0, 100, 0, 2) failed three times. Reported error: Error opening adapter: The system cannot 
> find the device specified. (20)
> There are several possible reasons for this, depending on your operating system:
>
> will nmap work on WLAN ?

It probably won't work under Windows with your wireless modem. You can
try the --unprivileged option to use normal sockets. You won't get all
features, like OS scan and traceroute, but you can still port scan,
script scan, and do version detection.

David Fifield
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