Re: wireless settings is not available

[hong zhang <henryzhang62 () yahoo com>]

I tried to use Linux Monitor mode with wireshark and find everything works fine but 40MHz. That is why I try to switch 
to windows wireshark.
Any good experience with Linux and wireshark?

--- On Tue, 2/2/10, Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu> wrote:

> From: Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>
> Subject: Re: [Wireshark-users] wireless settings is not available
> To: "Community support list for Wireshark" <wireshark-users () wireshark org>
> Date: Tuesday, February 2, 2010, 12:23 PM
>
> On Feb 2, 2010, at 10:12 AM, hong zhang wrote:
>
> > I use wireshark windows version. But wireless settings
> button on Capture Option is disabled. My wireless card of
> Intel 4965 and Atheros A5008 cannoed be used for Sniffer if
> wireless settings is disabled.
> > I think I miss a capture driver for my cards. How
> could I solve this problem?
>
> No, you're missing a capture card for your machine:
>
>     http://www.cacetech.com/products/airpcap.html
>
> Unlike some commercial network analyzers, we don't have our
> own special drivers for capturing with various network
> adapters, and WinPcap doesn't support NDIS 6 and thus can't
> support the "Native Wi-Fi" capabilities of some drivers on
> Windows Vista and 7 (and possibly some service packs for
> XP), so the only devices with which you can, on Windows, do
> "monitor mode"-style capturing with Wireshark are the
> special AirPcap adapters.
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