From owner-freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Wed Mar 28 21:31:28 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-wireless@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEC57F73D6C for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2018 21:31:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from khanzf@gmail.com) Received: from mail-yw0-x22f.google.com (mail-yw0-x22f.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4002:c05::22f]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8B87083633 for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2018 21:31:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from khanzf@gmail.com) Received: by mail-yw0-x22f.google.com with SMTP id v130so1305155ywa.0 for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2018 14:31:27 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to; bh=ml/I9LxByPD6T1SDdlvRGBUhlhVJSCdNp/bUt8eXYp4=; b=tRBYcQrxD0tyMtdixC5rtavK0BtWag84b02JpuQ4DRubwZBll9Aa4Lju1YT3B3Nm92 taZtaPHGHCfRKWPk4H2umDmfGvmq1V783y8iUOvzgCWK1Dr1jWbsIqguTD2SFJ16m2PT hy52Zey6d3fRnMSNNt6gQB3zGGPkY7AeSF+Z1msihl0rU7uGXUgMyG9p8qLPN9uR2IDG WY56MBMeEyzCzwMbtp+nFYo4aXRvXYxI0+6wDTBkKCu2gi67vQ3dpJLfsvNEINsoff8L 95sN6tVyXdKvqOaSntjWkNIr8DfEgM4Thcxe+8oaCDrEtb690Fa9tlRfm7U9WhYRS6JQ zrkA== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to; bh=ml/I9LxByPD6T1SDdlvRGBUhlhVJSCdNp/bUt8eXYp4=; b=HnMZSU+q95L7zICThZyMkkTjvxRTg9fSRxY7aGhf5+Su1o49IqOziazGg0onhRdPKO +li8l93GXuB8gBs8HGMVuDxqdb4LZMSShqxzUv72i+OHbNa/O25+cgyw/TtWB8TQWNf+ zECdSVnLlNTU1rTDtxhmyj+td7KJSW93FRcjYO/iA2G/5PcyvERP2S06sUIOgCtaK5qm c8/oOBo+4FXP0GYPqUAlVx50rcf++YaUBBJdNNFAvSbhGgWWf9SFTtmRdQf70g2RBJIG MEl3NwAsMbHLPyM+edw9iUkqqpRYTKRfov6sc41TQ2qO/Py6fuFZQ1rSc0GRZzXRn5N8 R2nA== X-Gm-Message-State: AElRT7GQOVFj3mM2S+4xoQNyMYGUtKdCVY3TmBsPTyWjeLE4vMMd71VB OefmpntjsJ19qQXRBclWX196MUqtS08muGt6J9Ar2X3O X-Google-Smtp-Source: AIpwx4+1PX+KVYjzGk7/yTUjuBVZvCjmURD1E8GKROHW7o+ovMEx9hoWvUfayLrnn3FzVvL2DRlU8YrOp+JKJIy9N+8= X-Received: by 10.13.196.70 with SMTP id g67mr3367695ywd.387.1522272686478; Wed, 28 Mar 2018 14:31:26 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 2002:a25:2107:0:0:0:0:0 with HTTP; Wed, 28 Mar 2018 14:31:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Farhan Khan Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2018 17:31:05 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Starting Station mode for rtwn(4)'s rtl8188ee To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.25 X-BeenThere: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussions of 802.11 stack, tools device driver development." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2018 21:31:28 -0000 Hi all, As discussed in the IRC channel, I finally got the rtwn(4) rtl8188ee device to start receiving frames in Monitor mode. As Adrian suggested, I would like to proceed to Station mode, but I am not certain where to start. My question is, what are the first steps that switching to Station mode does? What net80211 methods that reach into the driver should I target? I can eventually find out through tracing net80211, dtrace(1) and printfs, and probably will anyways, but it would save a lot of time if someone could give me some pointers (pun intended). Thank you, -- Farhan Khan PGP Fingerprint: B28D 2726 E2BC A97E 3854 5ABE 9A9F 00BC D525 16EE