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Miscellaneous
Here is an unsorted collections of some findings.
Promiscuous mode on ThinkPad T60
To enter promiscuous mode on a ThinkPad T60, a monitor device needs to be created. Follow the steps below to get it working:
iw dev wlan0 interface add mon0 type monitor ifconfig mon0 up ifconfig mon0 promisc
Now, package dumping should work on mon0
and wlan0
. The monitor device also emits all low level WLAN packets.
Starting KDE if it's not the default Session Manager
I use to run XFCE as my windows manager on my laptop as it is fast. However, from time to time a real user interface is much nicer to use, and in this case KDE is my choice. Still, I don't want to reconfigure my system every time I want to start KDE, thus I use the following command to start it manually:
xinit /etc/X11/Xsession startkde
(KDE does not seem to provide a start script like XFCE does on Debian.)
To reconfigure the session manager, run the following command as root and select the desired session manager.
update-alternatives --config x-session-manager