Put wireless card in promiscuous mode.

[sent17inel]

This is the laptop i have. http://www.circuitcity.com/ccd/productDetail.do?oid=207722&WT.mc_n=3&WT.mc_t=U&cm_ven=COMPARISON%20SHOPPING&cm_cat=CNET&cm_pla=DATAFEED-%3EPRODUCTS&cm_ite=1%20PRODUCT&cm_keycode=3

im wondering if its possible to put this laptops built in wireless card into promiscuous mode or if im going to have to buy a wireless pcmia card. and if so. what kind of card do u recommend i should buy that has been verified to work in promiscuous mode on ubuntu.?

[kevdog]

Can you list

lsusb

lshw -C network

Trying to find what type of networking card you have!

[sent17inel]

daniel@daniel-laptop:~$ lsusb
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 062a:0000 Creative Labs Optical Mouse
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 04f2:b008 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 007 Device 002: ID 03f0:6611 Hewlett-Packard
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
daniel@daniel-laptop:~$ lshw -C network
WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL8101E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:04:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 01
serial: 00:1e:ec:07:6c:3a
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.2LK latency=0 module=r8169 multicast=yes
*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN Network Connection
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:05:00.0
logical name: wmaster0
version: 61
serial: 00:1f:3b:25:be:7d
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list logical ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=iwl4965 ip=192.168.0.100 latency=0 module=iwl4965 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11g

[sent17inel]

here it told me to run it as a super user so let me post the output using sudo.


daniel@daniel-laptop:~$ sudo lshw -C network
[sudo] password for daniel:
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL8101E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:04:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 01
serial: 00:1e:ec:07:6c:3a
capacity: 1GB/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm vpd msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.2LK duplex=half latency=0 link=no module=r8169 multicast=yes port=twisted pair
*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN Network Connection
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:05:00.0
logical name: wmaster0
version: 61
serial: 00:1f:3b:25:be:7d
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list logical ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=iwl4965 ip=192.168.0.100 latency=0 module=iwl4965 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11g
daniel@daniel-laptop:~$

[sent17inel]

nevermind! I got it to work. thanks though!