Hi Ben, did you get a chance to look into this issue(injecting frames when device in monitor mode). Thanks and Regards, S Prasad On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 10:41 AM, Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On 05/12/2015 03:14 AM, Michal Kazior wrote: >> >> On 12 May 2015 at 11:31, s prasad <sprasad.kandregula@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> May I know, is this firmware or driver constraint? >>> If somebody have patch for this, am ready to test it. >> >> >> Short answer: There's nothing, yet. >> >> Long answer: >> >> From what I know official firmware doesn't support injecting packets >> via monitor vdev. This is a firmware limitation. >> >> A way around this may be creating and using an additional vdev, e.g. >> AP. This will be rather ugly but may work. There's no patch for it. >> >> An alternative would be to ask Ben to modify his CT-firmware branch. > > > I gave this a decent try a month or two ago, and had no luck. The hardware > (from what I can tell), just will not send a frame to an unknown peer. > > I noticed the other day that ANQP will not work on ath10k, and I suspect > similar issues..so I will be in that code again. Maybe I'll learn > how to trick it into sending arbitrary frames. > > All that said, there is no way to specify rate-ctrl info on a per-pkt > basis when injecting frames, so I don't know what good injecting frames > on a mgt device will accomplish. > > Thanks, > Ben > >> Also there's a problem with submitting raw 802.11 frames to firmware. >> There's some work ongoing [1]. >> >> [1]: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/ath10k/2015-May/005144.html >> >> >> Michał >> -- >> 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 >> > > -- > Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com -- S Prasad Kandregula -- 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
