Yep, it works as an RNDIS device, very similar to what you see with the WLAN Pi if you have one of those (and you should). If you plug it in to your Mac you should see something like this: But did you know that the mini port still works while the DC jack power is used? It doesn’t work as a host port but it works just great as a device port. Step 2 – Connect to the NanoĪs I mentioned in my original post, I power the Nano via the DC barrel connector because it allows 10 watt operation, which is a nice chunk of power. Yay!īy the way – if Linux is your desktop of choice then you already have an X11 server, but you also probably already knew that. So go to the XQuartz site, download XQuartz, and that gives you an X11 server. That has fallen by the wayside but it can still be yours thanks to the XQuartz project. So no matter which Linux GUI you use it can trace its roots back to X11 and believe it or not when MacOS X first came out it had native X11 support. I’ll be sorting out those details shortly. This method is Mac/Linux oriented but I’m confident it should be easy to do with the Windows Subsystem for Linux.

Let me show you what I’ve been doing to make my captures a bit easier. A lot of really cool folks like François Vergès and Gjermund Raaen have been using the Nano as an 802.11ax capture tool, as have I.

Pi wireshark captures