debugging a Wifi association problem

[Vladimir Botka]

On Wed, 17 Jul 2019 20:53:24 +0200
Matthias Apitz <guru at unixarea.de> wrote:

> 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.  
> > 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.  
> 
> 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.
> Thanks
> 	matthias

Yes. FreeBSD is able to capture Wifi. Find below the link to the BSD chapter.
https://wiki.wireshark.org/CaptureSetup/WLAN#A.2ABSD

Cheers,

	-vlado
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