On 4/24/13 1:33 AM, Pontus Fuchs wrote: > On 2013-04-24 04:34, Guy Harris wrote: >> >> On Apr 22, 2013, at 3:12 AM, Vladimir Bondar >> <vladimir91.bon...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I'm a student who wants to take a part in Wireshark for Android >>> developing. >>> I have just read about that, and I have a question does it work only >>> with RTL 8187 adapter? > > I have captured raw 802.11 frames on a number of different Android devices. > >> libpcap can be compiled for Android; that's what Wireshark would use >> for Android, just as it uses libpcap or WinPcap on other OSes. > > If fact, if you compile engineering builds of Android tcpdump is > included by default. > >> The only way in which libpcap knows about particular Wi-Fi adapters is >> in code it uses to put adapters into monitor mode if the driver is >> *not* a mac80211 driver; I *suspect* the drivers for adapters used on >> Android machines are new enough that they're mac80211 drivers. > > Unfortunately this is not universally true. A lot of devices use > proprietary drivers that lacks monitor mode support.
The "RTL 8187" might be a reference to Android PCAP, which allows packet capture on non-rooted Android devices but is currently limited to adapters using that particular chipset: http://www.kismetwireless.net/android-pcap/ ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <wireshark-dev@wireshark.org> Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev mailto:wireshark-dev-requ...@wireshark.org?subject=unsubscribe
