Thread: Reasons to move from Maemo/N900 to MeeGo?
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2011-08-22 , 12:08
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Originally Posted by tuxsavvy View Post
As far as rumours go, N950 is equipped with wl1271 chipset which means N9 will most likely be equipped with identical wireless chipset.

The driver for that chipset is fully open within linux, therefore one has access to rfmon/monitor mode (which only maybe a bit more than a handful of wireless chipsets of all the variations of wireless chipset supported under linux through various means has that support).

If it has that support then it should have a well developed managed support (and should inherently include promiscuous mode).
promiscuous mode is not something you can get through software is a capacity it has inherent of the hardware, many wireless cards will not have monitor or promiscous mode no matter what drivers you put on them, however many cards support monitor mode but promiscuous mode is a very rare quality only some cards support, we are very luckily to have in our N900 a card who support everything: monitor, promiscuous, inyection and is very sensitive too, almost look like a profesional wifi card to auditing networks.

The only way to know if support promiscuous mode is someone who has a N950/N9 run ettercap (or some other sniffer) on it, and see if can sniff packets from other ip or not.
Last edited by -Tyler-; 2011-08-22 at 12:19.