How do I turn on monitor mode in wireshark on windows in the capture options?

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Thank you for your reply . I had read that. Is there a way I can verify this is the case? Is there a workaround?

I'm on windows 11 home 22H2 Wifi hardware: Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX201 160MHz

A workaround is to NOT use Windows and instead use another OS with hardware that is known to be supported. That may or may not help.

I understand all the parts in the "chain" have to support the function in order for it to work. Is there a way to check which part(s) is/are not?.

I found out it's the wifi hardware that doesn't support it. On the windows command line you can use the command "netsh wlan show wirelesscapabilities" to check.

Thanks for the help.

That's useful, I'll add that to the wiki page.

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Correction. I said the hardware is incompatible but as I understand it now it's the driver that's incompatible. The same hardware seems to have the monitor mode capability in linux.

I' m sorry for closing the question. I'm new to this forum. I have tried to reopen it by clicking reopen at the top but i don't think it's working. Am I doing something wrong?

No problem, it's just convention here to leave answered questions open. I'll reopen it.

I've asked Intel support why their windows drivers don't support monitor mode. Their reply:

"Unfortunately we would not be able to disclose at this point the reasons why Intel decided to not include such support for Windows. Currently there are no plans to introduce this feature."

This might be useful to people on the same quest, especially if more people enter their own findings in the list. It's information about wifi chipsets and their monitor mode support under windows.

https://secwiki.org/w/Npcap/WiFi_adap...