Somebody in the thread at some point said: > As far as I know the phy0/add_iface entry can be used to add a new > interface. Notify though the "file" has write access for other, > you will need network admin capabilities, which is satisfied by > being root. For example: > > # cat mon0 >/sys/class/net/wmaster0/phy80211/add_iface echo -n mon0 ... ;-) you can also come at this through /sys/class/ieee80211/phy<n>/add_iface Nice idea to document it Daniel. Seeing it written down makes it a little more obviously "huh?" about the hard and soft monitor distinction IMO. There seems to be some agreement that in the future the number of virtual interfaces that happen to be lying around shouldn't determine the functionality of Monitor mode like that. -Andy - 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
