Project Evil -- ndis with 2200bg with dstumbler/dweputils

[Simon L. Nielsen]

On 2004.07.22 23:21:21 -0400, Michael Roberts wrote:

> i've been trying to get the intel pro/wireless 2200bg working with 
> dstumbler/bsd-airtools, and have not had much success.  i have the ndis 
> wrapper successfully compiled in, and running commands like "wicontrol -i 
> ndis0 -l" gives good output.  however, running dwepdump or dstumbler 
> doesn't give any output.
> 
> so am i doing something wrong, or does ndis not work with those programs?  
> if so, are there any other similar programs which do?

NDIS (the API) does not have support for packet sniffing, so dstumbler
and similar tools cannot work with the NDIS wrapper.  Bill Paul wrote a
longer explanation about why a few weeks ago to some list (probably
current@, but I'm not sure).

-- 
Simon L. Nielsen
FreeBSD Documentation Team
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