On Sunday 08 July 2007 20:15:24 Ulrich Kunitz wrote: > On 07-07-08 17:22 Andy Green wrote: > > > I rebooted into the new kernel and did this only > > > > # iwconfig wlan0 mode monitor > > # ifconfig wlan0 up > > # iwconfig wlan0 channel 6 > > # tcpdump -i wlan0 > > > > But all I could see were beacons, this is despite I am ssh-d into that > > box over the same channel 6 network with WPA and should surely be seeing > > the encrypted packets? > > I assume you were connected over a different interface. It appears > that the code, which enables the reception of all packets hasn't > been called or is wrong. Currently you will see only packets that > are sent to the interface. Promiscous mode is also interesting, > but shouldn't have any importance in monitor mode, which the > iwconfig manual describes as passing all packets on the frequency. > > > Then I decided to start wpa_supplicant (this > > is an FC6 box so it was service wpa_supplicant start) and I got this oops: > > > > ... > > EIP is at zd_mac_config_interface+0xc/0x35 [zd1211rw_mac80211] > > ... > > I believe Jon Smirl reported the same bug. But I didn't quite > understand how to provoke it. I think it's the NULL pointer dereference of the mac address pointer, if there's only a monitor interface. The address pointer can be NULL. -- Greetings Michael. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
