debugging a Wifi association problem

[Matthias Apitz]

El día miércoles, julio 17, 2019 a las 08:26:02p. m. +0200, Vladimir Botka escribió:

> > I installed wireshark-2.6.5_2 in my FreeBSD (CURRENT from December last
> > year). I tried to enable from
> > 	View --> [x] Wireless Toolbar
> > but this gives an error about "Failed to initialize ws80211" in the GUI
> > and I can not set the channel or Frequency. Is this not possible with
> > FreeBSD?
> 
> FreeBSD is not needed to analyse the the problem.

I only have FreeBSD laptops (and an older Ubuntu) and the question was
not if FreeBSD is needed, but if FreeBSD is *able* to capture Wifi.

> Use whatever system is able
> to set wifi card into the "monitor" mode and sniff the packets first. The
> link below is complete how to do it
> https://wiki.wireshark.org/CaptureSetup/WLAN
> When you got the data analyse it with wireshark. The captured data might grow
> fast.

Thanks

	matthias


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