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Re: [RFC] mac80211: at76x50x_usb driver broken by commit 3afc216.. and RX path involved in scan

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Hi Andrea,

> Unfortunately it seems it does the same as mine..

Ok ... fair enough.

> If this is not the case (no one knowns/tells) IMHO the two choice are:
> - do what we said: parse beacons to extract channel information (and
> let monitor mode stay as it is)

Probably the best course of action for now. I'd make this conditional on
receiving probe response/beacon, there should be helper functions for
most of this. Since the chip is 2.4 GHz only you also don't have any
problems with band selection stuff.

> - do more investigation trying to fix also monitor mode issue.

That could be done as a follow-up, I guess.

> I could do some work on this (including opening the dongle to see if I
> can put HW probes on the RF chip, to see on with frequency the FW
> tunes it when scan commands are sent).
> 
> Also AFAIK there is a new firmware in the off-tree Atmel driver, that
> AFAIK also support WPA.
> If this turns out to be true, then I'm tempted to rework the driver
> for using it (hoping the the scan command works better on it).
> 
> FYI :
> Honestly I'm unsure if it's worth to do these last things:

Whatever you want to do :-)

johannes

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