On 12/04/2013 01:52 AM, Nikita N. wrote:
Hi Larry :) thank you very much for the comments on my patch, really
appreciated.
Anyway, lets try to stick on the issue, ok?
The issue is the malfunction of *MONITOR* mode.
I can't see any monitor mode call from your log, you tested only managed
mode, isn't it?
I repeat, managed mode works perfectly also in my interfaces, no need to
test it.
We need to test *MONITOR* mode.
Since you say that at you, the *MONITOR* mode works ok, I need to
reproduce your environment here, in order to test the *MONITOR* mode.
As already asked in previous email, what OS Linux distro do you use
exactly when you test *MONITOR* mode in your 8187 interfaces?
What programs suite do you use exactly when you test *MONITOR* mode in
your 8187 interfaces?
Until I fixed your patch, I could not be assured that it would work. I get
nervous when that small a patch generates that many warhings.
I was finally able to test monitor mode this morning, and found that it is
failing for kernel 3.13-rc2 as you said. The system set promiscous mode, but no
off-channel data is returned. I use openSUSE 13.1 on an ancient laptop. It is
installed without X - not enough memory. I use kismet to capture over-the-air
data. I am currently building a v3.0 kernel to see when the failure happened. At
least I am pretty sure that I used rtl8187 in monitor mode in the past.
The logged data for my most recent run is
[ 295.841561] device wlan2 entered promiscuous mode
[ 295.842068] rtl8187_configure_filter
[ 295.842104] IN>changed_flags=0x3 ,total_flags=0x80000001 ,multicast=0x3
,priv->rx_conf=0x9094fc0e
[ 295.842114] >FIF_ALLMULTI
[ 295.842190] OUT>total_flags=0x2 ,priv->rx_conf=0x9094fc0e
[ 295.901636] rtl8187_configure_filter
[ 295.901690] IN>changed_flags=0xf3 ,total_flags=0x800000f1 ,multicast=0x3
,priv->rx_conf=0x9094fc0e
[ 295.901702] >FIF_CONTROL
[ 295.901711] >FIF_OTHER_BSS
[ 295.902016] >FIF_ALLMULTI, ***** Also has FIF_PSPOLL and FIF_PROBE_REQ set
[ 295.902113] OUT>total_flags=0x62 ,priv->rx_conf=0x909cfc0f
[ 296.279678] device wlan2mon entered promiscuous mode
[ 296.282327] rtl8187_configure_filter
[ 296.282363] IN>changed_flags=0x93 ,total_flags=0x800000f1 ,multicast=0x3
,priv->rx_conf=0x909cfc0f
[ 296.282373] >FIF_ALLMULTI
[ 296.282445] OUT>total_flags=0x62 ,priv->rx_conf=0x909cfc0f
Larry
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