Hello,
I'm running Fedora 15 on a Dell Inspiron 1440 (with a 64-bit processor and the B43 wireless driver). Whenever I try to use tools that sniff packets, such as wireshark, kismet, tcpdump, arpspoof, ettercap, etc. my wireless internet is disconnected after a couple minutes and I can't re-authenticate until I reboot my laptop.
I came up with possible reasons this could be happening:
- I know that my chipset needs the B43 LP PHY driver (for low power chipsets), maybe B43-fwcutter somehow installed the wrong version?
- Maybe Fedora has something built in to stop people from ARP poisoning?
- Maybe there's a bug in the B43 driver (maybe it doesn't support 64-bit processors very well)?
- Maybe my wireless router is programmed to stop people from ARP spoofing (although it worked fine on Ubuntu)?
Anyone have any ideas or solutions?
B43 Driver Disconnection Issues Whenever Attempting to Sniff Packets
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