Dave Wi-Fi

I have managed to finally get a USB wireless adapter working in monitor mode on Windows 10 which means I can finally go through a few in depth wireless packet captures. This will be a quick post on how I managed to get it all going and a bit of background information as to why this was needed when it comes to wireless. First WLAN management frames, Association, Authentication, Probes, and Beacons to name a few all have their frame control field set to 0. You unfortunately can't capture these packets using most generic adapters as most are missing one main function; the ability to flip into monitor mode. If you opened up Wireshark or Omnipeek and try to run a quick capture, you will find it will contain all the generic traffic you have probably seen before but no management frames which is intentional part of the wireless standard. To capture management frames you will need to get a standalone wireless adapter that is capable of monitor mode. I went through and did a bit of re