Thread: [Tutorial] Pentesting Wireless Networks
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Mentalist Traceur is offline Mentalist Traceur
2011-06-12 , 06:31
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#47
Originally Posted by tuxsavvy View Post
iw is needed for airmon-ng/airmon-zc which basically creates another virtual interface to be used specifically as monitoring whilst leaving the original virtual interface as managed mode. In other words, it makes possible for one to sniff the same channel as the same channel that the AP for one person to be associated/
connected to.
Yes. I know. That's why I was the one who put the work into making sure that the iw package in the maemo.org repository didn't conflict with the aircrack-ng package in the maemo.org repository. My next upload of aircrack-ng will also included iw as a dependency specifically because of the great convenience that airmon-ng+iw offers.

You read my entire post yes? Not just saw the first part and then assumed I didn't know what iw did?