determine if chipset is capable off packet injection and monitor mode

Question

and I want to know if my chipset is capable off doing those things

My chipset is a intel centrino advanced 6200-n on a sony vayo laptop running on windows 7.

Now, I know that windows is only capable off listening, so I boot backtrack 4 from a usb stick.

I also want to know if a live distribution can work flawlessly with the wificard even if it does not support formentioned things, because I try'd to use wget to download something and it says it ca not resolve the address?

thanks, Richard

Solution

Intel centrino advanced 6200-n does support both monitor mode and frame injection with iwlwifi driver. There are some intricacies involved on driver side though so it is best to use very recent kernel to make it work reliably. The patches which make this work well are expected to be part of Linux kernel version 3.5, until it's released you can build kernel yourself from iwlwifi.git tree: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/iwlwifi/iwlwifi.git

Instructions on building kernel from a git tree: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/GitKernelBuild

It should also work with older kernels.

As for the fact that you couldn't wget something - have you connected to wireless network at all? Standard client mode in iwlwifi works very well even with old kernels.