Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 15:59:17 +0000 From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> To: Bernhard Schmidt <bschmidt@techwires.net> Cc: net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Monitor mode not working for iwi(4) on 7.X Message-ID: <20101008155917.GB81218@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <201010081547.04586.bschmidt@techwires.net> References: <4763016D.7060100@janh.de> <AANLkTimB4gRYYzO8UHAGHB9p0nEm5utvXTwWX%2Baypt5J@mail.gmail.com> <20101008131849.GA54860@FreeBSD.org> <201010081547.04586.bschmidt@techwires.net>
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On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 03:47:04PM +0200, Bernhard Schmidt wrote:
> On Friday, October 08, 2010 15:18:50 you wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 08:43:37PM +0200, Bernhard Schmidt wrote:
> > > Try the attached patch, this is basically the code from stable/6
> > > ported to head and stable/7. I did only some basic tests but monitor
> > > mode seems to work and it is still possible to use the card in STA
> > > mode.
> > >
> > > I'm not sure why that got lost, but there must be a reason I'm not
> > > seeing right now. If someone has more knowledge about that, please
> > > let me know, otherwise I intend to commit it this weekend.
> >
> > Unfortunately, I am getting instant panic when trying any of aircrack-ng
> > suite utilities ("ifconfig iwi0 scan/list scan" works though):
>
> I did only some basic tests with tcpdump -ne -i wlan0 -y IEEE802_11_RADIO
> in monitor mode and that did work. Will check aircrack-ng later today.
Thanks.
FWIW, doing "ifconfig iwi0 mediaopt monitor" panics the box immediately
as well.
./danfe
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