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Emphasize requirement for active monitor mode
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Fixes #9
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## Requirements

To use OWL, you will need a Wi-Fi card supporting active monitor mode with frame injection. We recommend the Atheros AR9280 chip (IEEE 802.11n) which we used to develop and test this code. (Configurations that do not support active monitor mode, i.e., ACK received frames, might suffer from throughput degradation because the sender will re-transmit each frame up to 7 times as per the IEEE 802.11 standard.)
To use OWL, you will need a Wi-Fi card supporting active monitor mode with frame injection. We recommend the Atheros AR9280 chip (IEEE 802.11n) which we used to develop and test this code. Configurations that do not support *active* monitor mode, i.e., ACK received frames, might suffer from throughput degradation because the sender will re-transmit each frame up to 7 times as per the IEEE 802.11 standard. Have a look at [this issue](https://github.com/seemoo-lab/owl/issues/9) if you want to find out whether your card meets the requirements.


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Can you please give a couple brand name and model for the Atheros AR9280 WiFi adapter you used ?
I am trying to find one with a USB interface for ThinkPad T50p using Ubuntu 18.04.

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