Re: [Snort-users] snort wireless card "ERROR: Can't start DAQ (-1) - ê!î???!"

[acv <acv () miniguru ca>]

Hi,

Sounds like your wireless device does not support promiscuous mode. Try using
WinDump on the interface, if it fails to, you'll know that it's the hardware
(and/or drivers) and not snort.

Alex

On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 10:03:34PM +0000, codeforfun wrote:
> Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 22:03:34 +0000
> From: codeforfun <codeforfun () gawab com>
> To: snort-users () lists sourceforge net
> Subject: [Snort-users] snort wireless card "ERROR: Can't start DAQ (-1) - ê!î???!"
>
> I have installed snort and have it running fine with my wired interface.
>
> But when i try to run snort with my wireless card i get this error 
> "ERROR: Can't start DAQ (-1) - ê!î???!"
>
> Could someone please help point me in the right direction?
>
>
>
> Full Error Message:
>
> Initializing Output Plugins!
> pcap DAQ configured to passive.
> Acquiring network traffic from 
> "\Device\NPF_{########-####-####-############}".
> ERROR: Can't start DAQ (-1) - ê!î???!
> Fatal Error, Quitting..
>
>
>
> Version information:
>
> Snort Version 2.9.1.2-ODBC-MySQL-WIN32 IPv6 GRE (Build 84)
> Using PCRE version: 8.10 2010-06-25
> Using ZLIB version: 1.2.3
> WinPcap 4.1.2
>
>
> --
> codeforfun
>
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