urtwn and hostap

Andriy Voskoboinyk s3erios at gmail.com
Fri Sep 25 13:56:09 UTC 2015


> I tried to look for beacon frames using tcpdump on another urtwn adapter
> but unfortunately it doesn't appear to be working. I see a "need
> promiscuous mode update callback" printed out on the console every time
> I try. I assume that's indicative of a problem. Is there something else
> I should try besides running the second adapter in monitor mode and then
> running tcpdump on the interface? I did see these when running tcpdump
> on the wlan0 hostap adapter itself ...

I have tested this patch with RTL8188EU in hostap mode
(and with WUSB54GC in monitor mode) - and have not seen beacons from it  
too.

>
> The station wasn't able to associate with both bits stripped. It did
> work with the bssid data bit stripped, so the new patch reflects that.
> I'm not sure what the most appropriate comment update should be there so
> I left it as is.
>

Sorry for misunderstanding - I have mean BCN flag ('receive beacon  
frames'),
not DATA flag ('receive data frames').

>
> Latest patch is attached.
>
> -Matthew


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