On Thursday 24 January 2008 12:57:20 Jack wrote: > I'm planning to do a SoftMAC project such as the one based on Madwifi. My You're doing what? SoftMAC? Yet another 802.11 stack? > platform is based on bcm43xx (Buffalo WLI2-PCI-G54S). I traced the b43 > device driver for several days. I found that B43_MACCTL_KEEP_CTL and > B43_MACCTL_BEACPROMISC was set in monitor mode. So, I manually set these two > bits in the driver. However, it doesn't work like iwconfig the device into > monitor mode. I use Wireshark to verify it. I also tried to set > B43_MACCTL_PROMISC bit. It doesn't work either. You must be doing something wrong. Setting the promisc bits should be enough. -- 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
