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_pmf_ on July 12, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Avery’s laws of Wi-Fi reliability

What's the best COTS WiFi module for as-generic-as-possible WiFi sniffing?

nisa on July 12, 2017 [–]

Anything ath9k PCIe would be my guess. Driver is open-source, little to no closed firmware and it's battle tested and good Linux support. No 802.11ac through but for sniffing it shouldn't matter.

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