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Re: iwlwifi: Beacon frame injection at higher modulation in kernel 5.13+?

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On Mon, 2022-01-31 at 17:26 -0800, Kevin Kellar wrote:
> 
> Would anyone here be able to weigh in on:
> If frame injection while the interface is in monitor mode is supported
> by the iwlwifi driver

Kind of.

> Whether the iwlwifi team intentionally limits supported
> modulations/datarates for injected frames to be 802.11b 1Mb/s

Not really, but there's no code to handle it otherwise I guess, and
given how rate control works that's not really trivial.

> Whether injection at 802.11n MCSs is supported by Intel wireless
> device firmware, and if we could use this feature through the iwlwifi
> driver.
> 

Yes that should work in firmware, just need to set the rate into the TX
command (rate from command, not rate from STA LQ table)

johannes



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