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Re: Using ath5k/ath9k radio for constant-tx noise source.

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On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 05:22:46PM -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
> On 08/20/2015 08:11 AM, Zefir Kurtisi wrote:
> >On 08/19/2015 09:07 PM, Ben Greear wrote:
> >>I have a commercial AP that is using a CM9 ath5k radio (evidently, I could be wrong)
> >>and it has the ability to do a constant transmit of raw noise (RF probe shows
> >>noise, but a monitor-port sniffer does not see any frames from the CM9).
> >>
> >>I don't know the low-level details of how it is doing this, but I suspect
> >>it is using something like madwifi for a driver.
> >>
> >>Does anyone know how this can be done with modern software and
> >>ath5k or ath9k NICs?

Hi Ben,

I wrote some code to do this on ath5k -- I can post a patch if you're
interested in using ath5k for this.

Here's a snapshot of what it looks like when running on ch.1:

https://bobcopeland.com/images/speccy-testmode.png

-- 
Bob Copeland %% http://bobcopeland.com/



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