how to enable monitor/promiscuous mode

[inaka98]

Hi there, I have a Cisco Aironet wireless Atheros AR5001X+ installed on an HP laptop running Ubuntu 8.10. The card is working because I can logon to the wireless network at work and ping other IPs on the network. I would like to know how to enable monitor and/or promiscuous mode on this card because I am trying to run wireshark to capture traffic communication using this card. I am new to Linux and any help would be appreciated, thanks.

[SunSpyda]

To put a NIC into promiscuous mode, open the terminal and enter this -
sudo ifconfig xxx promisc
Once this command is run, you will need to enter the root password. Replace the xxx with the device name of your NIC, usually this is eth0 or rausb0.

[inaka98]

I tried the command, but when I typed iwconfig, it still displays the "Mode:Managed". How do I check if the mode has been changed to promiscuous? I tried typing in "sudo ifconfig xxx monitor" to change it to monitor mode, but I get a message saying "monitor: Unknown host". How do I change the mode to monitor? Thanks.

[Leetbumble]

When you type

#sudo ifconfig xxx prmisc

the xxx is the name of your wireless card.



To find this type

#ifconfig -a

which will output all of your devices. The one you are looking for is
WLAN[number]
Where number will likely be a 0 (zero) because it is your first wireless card.

The final command would look like

#sudo ifconfig wlan0 promisc


Hope this helps.