Hi all,
I have a wireless (802.11b) router Access Point and my laptop connected together. As i can see in the configuration of the router there should be a beacon frame sent every 100ms on my AP. I would like to see all these control,management frames sent from the AP to the stations.
Now, in order to see those packets I need to set my wireless card on monitor mode and hope the the drivers that i have for the wireless card can give me this information. I have used tcpdump and wireshark to capture that but in both cases i couldnt see any of these frames.
Here is what i ve tried.
First wireless card
lsusb:
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 050d:905b Belkin Components F5D9050 ver 3 Wireless Adapter
in tcpdump i check my devices by
sudo tcpdump -D
1.eth0
2.wmaster0
3.wlan0
4.ppp0
5.wmaster1
6.wlan2
7.any (Pseudo-device that captures on all interfaces)
8.lo
My Usb card is wlan2, and it also introduced the wmaster1 entrance in this command, not sure about the meaning of that. Next i tried to set my card in monitor mode
sudo tcpdump -I wlan2
or sudo tcpdump -I wmaster1
in both cases the output is
tcpdump: eth0: That device doesn't support monitor mode
Because i couldnt find a solution for that, i move to wireshark and try to set the cards to capture the frames. In wireshark, capture interfaces i can see that the usb1 interface (the one i have my wireless card connected to) is adding up received packets. If i receive this packets the output is something like below which i do not understand.
URB_BULK
URB_CONTROL
URB_CONTROL
URB_CONTROL
....
Second thing that i tried with wireshark is to set the interface of wmaster1 disabling the option of "hide capture info dialog" and from "Edit/preference/protocols" i set it to 802.11 frames.
In this case i am able to see some 802.11 packets sent with no data from the Computer to the AP but they have no major meaning. Also it might worth to mention that i never see a packet sent from the AP mac origin to the Pc with no data value (which could be some controlling packet).
So could somebody guide me what i am doing wrong?
Thanks
