On Tue, 2014-05-06 at 10:56 -0700, Ben Greear wrote: > But, it seems if I have another vif up, it will fail, even if that > vif is (should be?) using the exact same frequency. > > ./local/sbin/iw phy wiphy0 interface add moni0 type monitor > ./local/sbin/ip link set dev moni0 up > ./local/sbin/iw dev moni0 set freq 5180 80 5210 > -> yields error: > command failed: Device or resource busy (-16) You can't set the monitor frequency if you're using the hardware for something else already. We could potentially allow that if the chandefs are compatible, but that's getting into really messy territory so I'm not sure I want to go there - if for example the other interface switches bandwidth or even channel the monitor would usually simply follow around. johannes -- 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
