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Subject: Re: Project Evil -- ndis with 2200bg with dstumbler/dweputils
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thanks for your reply.  i looked around for the post you mentioned, but i 
couldn't find it.  do you have any more recollection as to where it would 
be?  thx for any help.

mike

>From: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org>
>To: Michael Roberts <tpen0010@hotmail.com>
>CC: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
>Subject: Re: Project Evil -- ndis with 2200bg with dstumbler/dweputils
>Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 10:17:54 +0200
>
>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
><< attach3 >>

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