Hi Larry :) If I can give you my humble suggestion - keep the rest of your 8187 interfaces park, far from 3.13 .. I lost both mine like that.. :P Instead if you can, please test another working 8187 on a different safe distro, e.g. Backtrack5 Live, any version, and install our patch, ok? Would be nice to see logs there.. As you know, Backtrack5 is a live distro, means yes, when reboot all changes are lost.. but you workaround that running on VMWare and choosing "save state" (instead of power-off) The times I have been running on BT5, monitor mode always worked with no issues.. kinda of, at last 3 years no-problems testing :) As I see from your log, your 8187 goes in monitor (promiscuous) with different patterns: priv->rx_conf shifts from 0e:fc:94:90 (0x9094fc0e) to 0f:fc:9c:90 (0x909cfc0f) plus more options.. in mine, priv->rx_conf shifts from 0a:fc:94:90 to 0b:fc:9c:90. The last 3 bytes of priv->rx_conf are the same in mine and yours, just the first is different (0b/0f) but it still doesnt put interface in functional monitor mode. FYI, in backports Hauke Mehrtens wrote me about a eeprom bug they discovered.. could it be related? thanks :) On Wed, Dec 4, 2013, at 12:49 PM, Larry Finger wrote: > > 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 > -- http://www.fastmail.fm - A no graphics, no pop-ups email service -- 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
