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Re:Asahi Linux Still Working on Apple M3 Support, M1n1 Bootl... by Teever on Friday October 24, 2025 @11:59AM (#45695941)
Can you tell me more about promiscuous mode in Asahi? I'm not able to find much reliable stuff when I search.

Is they possible with the built in WiFi chipsets?

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Re:Asahi Linux Still Working on Apple M3 Support, M1n1 Bootl... by mort96 on Friday October 24, 2025 @07:08PM (#45700018)
Promiscuous mode is just when the WiFi chipset picks up all the WiFi packet it sees. In the normal mode, the chipset will drop everything that's meant for a different MAC address. The ability to switch to promiscuous mode is very common, and Linux exposes generic APIs to switch an interface to promiscuous mode if the driver supports it.
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