Understood. I'm checking that change in my code and I'll update it in the CVS (before commiting to the kernel tree).B On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Mike Kershaw wrote: > Grargh. At work all weekend. Didn't have time to make a real patch. > > Anyhow - Proposed changes to airo.c for rfmonitor mode. I've been working > on making it quiet (not continually probing) and on making it enter "true" > rfmon mode (right now it doesn't, which is why user-controlled channel > hopping doesn't work). Both of these are "special case" stuff that doesn't > affect normal users, but are near and dear to my own pursuits. :P > > I've succeeded in the first, but not the second, so I hadn't released any > changed driver code. The first is actually a very simple change - in the > code block that puts the driver into rfmon mode (around line 2480 on my > code) after setting: > config.rmode = RXMODE_RFMON | RXMODE_DISABLE_802_3_HEADER; > or > config.rmode = RXMODE_RFMON_ANYBSS | RXMODE_DISABLE_802_3_HEADER; > > it should set: > config.scanMode = SCANMODE_PASSIVE; > > and in the code block exiting rfmon mode, after: > config.opmode = 0; > it should set: > config.scanMode = SCANMODE_ACTIVE; > > With my testing this stops the probing in rfmon (good) and doesn't have any > negative impacts. More testing is, of course, a good idea. > > I can try to come up with an exact diff but I figured I should get something > out while everyone is discussing changes, and I don't know how much time I'm > going to have in the coming weeks. > > -m > > -- > I like my coffee like I like my friends -- Dark, and bitter. > - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
