Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 15:15:45 +0000 From: Paul B Mahol <onemda@gmail.com> To: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> Cc: Brandon Gooch <jamesbrandongooch@gmail.com>, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>, net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Monitor mode not working for iwi(4) on 7.X Message-ID: <AANLkTi=7qqOAM7c_rH=GwzYf%2BqOePZ9dFixNpYmjm0kN@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20101008122939.GA52927@FreeBSD.org> References: <4763016D.7060100@janh.de> <20101006100335.GA26843@FreeBSD.org> <AANLkTimZD%2B8Ex2FL2cb_Z%2BTOpJV-87Z8xXhLSwtqYWmn@mail.gmail.com> <20101007094918.GA15399@FreeBSD.org> <AANLkTin08906BqMCJU2eEbpmfx=POO85c1D02EnSYLC8@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTi=cq=WdMAFTra1BNjnmLGyw9Eja5szxHbZPK959@mail.gmail.com> <20101008091633.GA21612@FreeBSD.org> <AANLkTim6sgBZWwkRzzTA6sURzWa-x8LL6N0f=zOxt8f7@mail.gmail.com> <20101008122939.GA52927@FreeBSD.org>
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On 10/8/10, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 11:48:57AM +0000, Paul B Mahol wrote: >> On 10/8/10, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> wrote: >> > On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 12:44:20PM +0000, Paul B Mahol wrote: >> >> Monitor and injection work commpletly different after vap. >> >> >> >> I do not think that kismet and aircrack-ng from ports are patched at >> >> all. >> > >> > This is at least partially true; SVN trunk of aircrack-ng behaves better >> > than 1.1 version from ports (WRT infamous wi_write() problem). I will >> > work out patches for the port after kernel side will get fixed. >> >> Heh, you are wrong, svn trunk of aircrack-ng is broken versus >> wi_write() "problem". >> >> Look at "famous" ticket number 666 > > Oh, that's right, I think I've been testing SVN trunk with this patch > applied (maybe with =| MONITOR hunk, which I found in another version of > similar patch). Without a patch injection test fails immediately, > before wi_write() gets a chance to trigger. > >> Injection on FreeBSD (I forgot exact revision) will work only in AHDEMO >> mode. >> Unlike before you can not inject in MONITOR mode. > > I've seen people say this, but I could not find more elaborative answer. > I am also not sure about AHDEMO mode, since iwi(4) reports this for me: > > $ ifconfig iwi0 list caps > iwi0=25818300<IBSS,PMGT,SHPREAMBLE,MONITOR,WPA1,WPA2,WME,BGSCAN> I'm talking about after VAP, not about 7.X, where that does not apply. Support for AHDEMO is somehow similar to MONITOR, look how bwn(4) does it. It is very straightforward.
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