Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2019 20:53:24 +0200 From: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> To: Vladimir Botka <vbotka@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Subject: Re: debugging a Wifi association problem Message-ID: <20190717185324.GB2379@c720-r342378> In-Reply-To: <20190717202602.397ca542@gmail.com> References: <20190717053826.GA3090@c720-r342378> <20190717090543.4e0ac69f@gmail.com> <20190717173532.GA3766@c720-r342378> <20190717202602.397ca542@gmail.com>
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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. 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. > 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. Thanks matthias -- Matthias Apitz, ✉ guru@unixarea.de, http://www.unixarea.de/ +49-176-38902045 Public GnuPG key: http://www.unixarea.de/key.pub
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