Tag Archives: wireless

WLAN control, release 3

Friday, February 16, 2007 – 6:01pm

WLAN Control release 3 was just put up on Sourceforge.
Oooh at the shiny new features (change MAC address, multiple cards).
Aaah at the bugfixes.
Boo at the still-stinky documentation.
Then download it, already!

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WLAN monitoring

Tuesday, January 23, 2007 – 6:40pm

If you plan to listen to your WLAN, a little setup will be required. The WLAN card has to be put into monitor and promiscuous modes to listen to all traffic, then given the correct channel to listen on.
Assuming the interface is not already in use:
sudo su -
ifconfig eth1 promisc
iwconfig eth1 mode monitor
iwconfig eth1 channel [...]

By Paul | Posted in Hints & HowTo | Also tagged , , , | Comments (0)