On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 4:49 PM Samuel Sieb samuel@sieb.net wrote:
Where to look next ? I started this journey with a variety of web pages such as this one:
https://www.hackster.io/thatiotguy/enable-monitor-mode-in-tp-link-tl-wn722n-...
It looks to me like they used an alternate driver to make that work.
It seems so, they were using a 'current' driver. Using modinfo, I see that both my F26 and F32 are using the same driver, v4.1.4_6773.20130222. Whereas the Monitor support was added to the driver circa Sep 2015. So Fedora has been shipping a (very out of date?) driver.
I'm not wedded to this USB adapter, I'd like to know which one would
actually work in monitor mode, out of the box, with Fedora supplied drivers.
It works with the Intel Centrino adapter in my laptop and also with the two USB ones I tried. One was a really old Airlink 101 and the other was a tiny, cheap one that I got online with some Realtek chip that uses the rtl8192cu driver. The Airlink I couldn't switch to monitor mode inside wireshark, I had to set it from the command line before for some reason, but the others could be turned on by wireshark.
Try using your built-in wifi adapter.
I did (as mentioned), and it didn't get me anywhere, (Intel 3165) I'll re-investigate though.
> P.S. Looking at the newer Wireshark, I still didn't see a 'monitor'> button. Perhaps it's because the wi-fi driver isn't supporting it? When you open the capture options dialog, you might need to scroll to the right to see the monitor checkbox.Nope, I tried sending a screen shot, but the mailing list is holding my message for moderation.
If you grabbed the whole screen, it was probably too big. I've attached a shot of just the area.
Yeah, that's what I see, except, I get dashes instead of the checkboxes.
There is a column in the table entitled Monitor Mode, but it's filled in
with dashes.
Just checking, is your user in the wireshark group? Do you even see your network adapters in the list?
Yes