Q: 802.11 vap monitor mode

[Paul B. Mahol]

I belive that code is currently broken (last change in 2006).

On 7/3/08, Weongyo Jeong <weongyo.jeong at gmail.com> wrote:
> During testing a new driver, I got a problem to test a monitor mode at
> 802.11 vap I'm using.
>
> # uname -a
> FreeBSD kkk 8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #6: Wed May 14 11:27:37 KST
> 2008     root at kkk:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
> # ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev upgt0 wlanmode monitor
> # ifconfig wlan0 up
> # ifconfig
> [...]
> upgt0:
> flags=108943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,NEEDSGIANT>
> metric 0 mtu 2290
>         ether 00:0f:b5:dd:6f:36
>         media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g
> <monitor>
>         status: running
> wlan0:
> flags=28943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,PPROMISC>
> metric 0 mtu 1500
>         ether 00:0f:b5:dd:6f:36
>         inet6 fe80::20f:b5ff:fedd:6f36%wlan0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0xd
>         media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g
> <monitor>
>         status: running
>         ssid "" channel 1 (2412 Mhz 11g) bssid 00:0f:b5:dd:6f:36
>         country US authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpower 0 scanvalid 60
>         protmode CTS
>
> As seeing, it looks work but the problem is happend when I ran stumbler
> (src/tools/tools/net80211/stumbler) program.
>
> The error message is "ioctl(BIOCSDLT): Invalid argument" that it's
> emitted to screen when I execute the following command:
> # ./stumbler wlan0
>
> Are there something I missed?
>
> regards,
> Weongyo Jeong
>
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