Re: wireless settings is not available

[Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>]

On Feb 2, 2010, at 10:12 AM, hong zhang wrote:

> I use wireshark windows version. But wireless settings button on Capture Option is disabled. My wireless card of 
> Intel 4965 and Atheros A5008 cannoed be used for Sniffer if wireless settings is disabled.
>
> I think I miss a capture driver for my cards. How could I solve this problem?

No, you're missing a capture card for your machine:

        http://www.cacetech.com/products/airpcap.html

Unlike some commercial network analyzers, we don't have our own special drivers for capturing with various network 
adapters, and WinPcap doesn't support NDIS 6 and thus can't support the "Native Wi-Fi" capabilities of some drivers on 
Windows Vista and 7 (and possibly some service packs for XP), so the only devices with which you can, on Windows, do 
"monitor mode"-style capturing with Wireshark are the special AirPcap adapters.
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