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

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> On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 1:28 PM, Grumbach, Emmanuel
> <emmanuel.grumbach@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> > On Tue, 2016-04-05 at 16:25 +0300, Gucea Doru wrote:
> >> Is the iwlwifi driver capable of capturing data frames when the
> >> channel bonding is set to 80Mhz?
> >
> > dev <devname> set freq <control freq> [20|40|80|80+80|160] [<center
> > freq 1>] [<center freq 2>]
> >
> > You can take center_freq1 from the output of iw dev on a device that is
> associated to the same AP.
> 
> Thanks a lot, Emmanuel. My iw binary that came default with my Ubuntu
> distribution was very old (3.4) and it didn't have support for channel bonding
> larger than 40Mhz.
> I compiled the latest iw version from sources then I took the
> center_freq1 from the beacon advertised by the AP. That's because the iw
> dev on a device associated to the same AP gave me the control frequency.
> After that, I was able to capture the data frames.
> 
> One more question that I promise to be the last one:
> - I am trying to capture the Wi-Fi Direct traffic between two
> smartphones: iw shows me that the p2p interface from one of the
> smartphones uses 2.4Ghz, channel 1 so I set the monitor interface on 2.4,
> channel 1. The problem is that, again, I can't see the data frames. Instead, I
> can see the Association/Authentication Request, RTS/CTS, Block ACK (I
> attached the Wireshark capture at [1]).
> 

.... .... .... ...1 = HT LDPC coding capability: Transmitter supports receiving LDPC coded packets

This means that both sides use a coding algo that 7260 doesn't understand. 7260 talks Viterbi.
The only way to go here is to get a 7265 module (or later) instead.

> Analyzing the capture, I noticed that the HT capabilities advertised in the
> beacon frames indicates 802.11n D1.10. Does this trigger any indication for
> you on how to setup the monitor interface?
> 
> [1]
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5SBH08PU_ChNllaVHRienBSVlE/view?usp
> =sharing
> 
> Regards,
> Doru
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