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Hi there,
I read somewhere that I have to get a special driver to make my wi-fi card in monitoring.
I have dell vostro 1015 with 1379 wlan mini card,so is there any driver for my wi-fi card?

thanks in advance

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Short answer: you probably do not need a mysterious “RF monitoring driver” for the Vostro — you need to know what chipset that Dell 1379 mini‑card actually contains, and whether its driver exposes monitor (RFMON) and injection features. is testing a packet sniffer, and the question the thread was circling around (as and prompted) is whether the hardware + driver support monitor mode; Windows support is often limited and Linux is the usual, reliable path for full RF sniffing. (dell.com)

How to identify the card (collect these before changing anything): on Windows open Device Manager → network adapter → Properties → Details → Hardware Ids and copy the VEN/DEV string; on Linux run the PCI/USB and wireless probes. Example Linux commands:

sudo lspci -nnk | grep -iA3 net
lsusb
iw dev

The hardware IDs point you to the exact chipset and driver you must research. ()

How to test for monitor mode (recommend doing this from a Linux live USB like Kali/Ubuntu): check what modes the driver reports, enable monitor mode and test injection:

iw list | grep -A5 "Supported interface modes"
sudo airmon-ng check kill
sudo airmon-ng start wlan0
sudo aireplay-ng --test wlan0mon

If iw list does not show * monitor, the driver or chipset does not support RFMON. If aireplay-ng --test fails, injection is not available. (real-world-systems.com)

If the internal card lacks RFMON/injection, options are (a) replace the mini‑PCIe module with a Linux-friendly chipset, or (b) use an external USB adapter known to support monitor mode (Atheros AR9271 family is a dependable choice — e.g., genuine Alfa/AR9271 devices, or TP‑Link TL‑WN722N v1 only; later TL‑WN722N revisions use different chipsets). Check the ath9k_htc/devices list and version labels before buying. (wireless.docs.kernel.org)

If you must stay in Windows, install Npcap with “Support raw 802.11 traffic” and try Wireshark’s monitor-mode capture — but success still depends on the adapter/driver exposing native RFMON to Npcap. Collect the hardware IDs and the outputs above for definitive compatibility checks. (npcap.com)

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Member Avatar for rubberman

Please be more clear. Are you trying to turn your laptop into a WiFi sniffer?

Member Avatar for suley04

as rubberman said, could you please tell us what your purpose is? - is it to find out where the best signal is or something?

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I'm trying to test my packet sniffer

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Member Avatar for suley04

yes, but what are you trying to get from it? - what is the point of you testing your packet sniffer?

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i modified a code and i want to test it!!

Member Avatar for suley04

why dont you try downloading the latest driver for your hardware, that will surely have the feature in that you need.

Member Avatar for rdowney24

As suley04 said, google latest driver for your wifi card, and you should be fine. But if you if you need more detail security info, you prob need 3rd party soft.

Rich

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