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Estimating Wifi is a pilot project to automate the censusing of proximal wifi devices via low-cost and open source tools.
https://10x.gsa.gov/projects/shared-components-for-museums-and-libraries/
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windows-session-counter WlanHelper error #293

Open meenubhooshanan opened 1 year ago

meenubhooshanan commented 1 year ago

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On 10/24/22, Meenu found this error documented in the WinSw-x64.err.log files, running windows-session-counter.exe on the GPLS Windows machine.

12:47PM FTL command failed error="exit status 0xffffffff" command="c:/Windows/System32/Npcap/WlanHelper.exe wi-fi 2 mode monitor"

When running c:/Windows/System32/Npcap/WlanHelper.exe wi-fi 2 mode monitor in cmd prompt (Administrator mode), the error was "Error: too many parameters"

This command sets the USB wifi adapter to run in monitor mode. Currently, this command is run every time in case the PC is unplugged or restarted. Ideally, this would only need to be set once (when first running), and then again upon reboot.

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