[Thinkpad] Thinkpad T40 and Sniffer - Does not work

Hi All,

I have an IBM Thinkpad Windows XP and comes with 11a/b
integrated.

The problem I am having is none of sniffer
applications
can work with Wireless LAN card 11a/b/g, neither with
the one integrated 802.11a/b nor Netgear nor Dlink PC
card 802.11a/b/g.

for example the apps : Ethereal (www.ethereal.com)
Netboys, Sniffer Pro, et.

None of these Apps can detect and capture the packets
from integrated 802.11a/b/g or any Wireless PC card

I am sure that these apps work with any notebooks and
any network card, wired or wireless - I verified (of
course, these apps will not be able to capture the
802.11 packets/frames, it mainly captures regular
wired ethernet packet fames).

On the same system T40, all of these apps can detect
and capture the packets from integrated 100/1000
ethernet port.

I called IBM tech-supp, they said that IBM does not
support the thirdparty software and does not support
any sniffer apps. They support only the software
installed on the system. Sure they Don't care for
Interoperability nor Compatibility with other devices
/ software.

I would like to share my negative experience with
anyone is planning to purchase IBM thinkpad and have a
need to run the network sniffer app. Please
investigate and do more researches before actually buy
it.

I am very disappointed with IBM, I don't know which
application on T40 that prevents the sniffer apps to
perform the capture (even thou it can detect and be
select the Wireless integrated, But no capture).

Do you have any such problem with your IBM thinkpad?
If you have integrated or any PC card of 802.11x then
try to download www.ethereal.com and try capturing
packets from this PC card.

Anyone know how can I uninstall the IBM mobile,
connection or the QCWLICON.exe and QCon*.exe
 
Thank you
Timolthy

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Received on Sat Jan 24 04:44:25 2004