Monitor mode not working for iwi(4) on 7.X

Alexey Dokuchaev danfe at FreeBSD.org
Fri Oct 8 15:42:00 UTC 2010


On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 03:15:45PM +0000, Paul B Mahol wrote:
> On 10/8/10, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > 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.

Ah, now it makes sense, thanks for the pointers.  Unfortunately I doubt
that I can test 8.x/HEAD in a near future.  If I manage to, I'll report
of the results here.

./danfe


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