From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 23 09:25:07 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D555A16A4CE for ; Mon, 23 Feb 2004 09:25:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from ebb.errno.com (ebb.errno.com [66.127.85.87]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE1B743D1D for ; Mon, 23 Feb 2004 09:25:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) Received: from 66.127.85.91 ([66.127.85.91]) (authenticated bits=0) by ebb.errno.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i1NHP5HQ072121 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO); Mon, 23 Feb 2004 09:25:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) From: Sam Leffler Organization: Errno Consulting To: "Adams, Kevin" , "'freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org'" Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 09:24:47 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200402230924.47851.sam@errno.com> Subject: Re: 802.11 "monitor mode" issues X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 17:25:07 -0000 On Monday 23 February 2004 08:41 am, Adams, Kevin wrote: > Sam, > > Thanks for your reply. > > I tried it and did not see ANY debug info this time. I think that's a good > thing. But on the 'ifconfig' output, the 'status' field stated that it was > 'associated'. Just an observation. > > Also, am I to assume that the 'monitor mode' itself, does not increment > thru the channels, it has to be done via the 'ifconfig' or ioctl in a > program? Correct. kismet or similar will scan channels or you can do it manually with ifconfig (something I routinely do--start a tcpdump or ethereal and then go to another window and switch channels). Sam