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RE: iwlwifi monitor mode: No data frame captured on 5 Ghz

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> 
> Hello,
> 
> I am trying to capture packets that are exchanged between an AP and a
> smartphone on the 5Ghz frequency. For generating traffic, I upload UDP
> traffic from a laptop PC towards the smartphone using iperf.
> 
> The problem is that I can see _only_ the control frames like RTS/CTS, Block
> ACK, while the data packets are not captured. I uploaded the Wireshark
> capture files at [1] (located inside the folders whose name starts with 5Ghz).

Most likely the packets on A band have a VHT preamble and your SKU is 11N only.
Another option is that the traffic uses LDPC encoding and this device doesn't support it.


> 
> If I use the 2.4 frequency, all the frames are captured. I also uploaded the
> Wireshark packet traces for 2.4Ghz at [1] (located inside the folders whose
> name starts with 2.4 Ghz).
> 
> Is this a known bug or am I doing something wrong?
> 
> Additional details:
> Wi-Fi card:  iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: Detected Intel(R) Dual Band Wireless N 7260,
> REV=0x144 Firmware version: iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: loaded firmware version
> 25.228.9.0 op_mode iwlmvm
> Traffic encryption: WPA & WPA2 Personal
> Setting up the card in wireless mode:
> ip link set dev wlan0 down
> iw wlan0 set type monitor
> ip link set dev wlan0 up
> iw wlan0 set freq 5240
> 
> [1] https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5SBH08PU_Chek9rOHY0VkxFRUE
> 
> Thank you, Doru
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