On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 08:50:58AM +0200, Piotr Kaczorek wrote: > W dniu 13.05.2011 21:06, Greg KH pisze: > >On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 03:46:56PM +0200, Piotr Kaczorek wrote: > >>I'm using vt6655 driver from 2.6.38 kernel for my wifi card. It's > >>set up as access point (using modified script from VIA's native > >>drivers - attached in package). > >Right there you are probably alone in doing this. Running the device as > >an access point is something that I doubt the code really was ever > >tested for at all. > > > >>I'd like to know if there is a possibility to run this card in > >>monitor mode? It would be best if I could run AP and monitor modes > >>at the same time (maybe on separate interfaces?). > >> > >>I also found a problem with sent packets. My setup is quite strange > >>- my AP doesn't give access to the internet but substitutes any > >>request with my page hosted on AP itself (kind of captive portal). > >>There is a dnsmasq set to provide DHCP and DNS pointing to hotspot > >>itself. All packets coming from eth1 are intercepted by iptables (-A > >>PREROUTING -i eth1 -p tcp -j DNAT --to-destination > >>192.168.100.1:8180). On port 8180 i have nginx serving website. > >>The page is sent correct but images seem to break while being sent > >>(on mobile phones i can't see them in the browser or can see only > >>part of them, on windows however whole content is sent correctly). > >>I attach packet dumps from three devices i'm testing it on - > >>SonyEricsson P1i (Opera Mobile), BlackBerry Curve 8520 (their native > >>browser) and laptop with Window VIsta installed (FF4.0). Each > >>contains one request to some 'made up' url. > >You should be happey that you are even getting this to work at all :) > > > >And I think you are really on your own here, any patches that you could > >provide to resolve any of these issues would be greatly appreciated. > > > >good luck, > > > >greg k-h > > > I am really happy that it works, and thanks guys for doing a great work. > Problem is that our customers won't be satisfied with 'thats the way > it works' and i'm responsible for setting it all up :) If you have "customers" for this type of thing, I would suggest you get different hardware that you know works properly for Linux. Right now, this driver is not at the level of which I would feel comfortable having to support it for anyone, so you really are on your own here. Best of luck, greg k-h _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
