Pavel Roskin wrote:
On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 13:04 -0400, Richard Farina wrote:
Johannes Berg wrote:
orinoco_pci.c
orinoco_pci.c is a good candidate for removal. It only supports the
hardware that is already supported by hostap_pci.
Wait wait. I think everybody would rather see hostap go than orinoco
since hostap is a huge complex thing and quite buggy.
I really disagree with this statement. Until kernel version 2.6.21 the
hostap driver was used very widely by the wifi security community
because of it's great abilities for monitor mode and frame injection.
In kernel 2.6.21 there was a change that made the injection patches not
work and my ability is insufficient to fix this regression, however, the
orinoco driver has always had morbid issues with simple things such as
monitor mode.
The only issue I know in the monitor mode in orinoco is lack of radiotap
headers. That should not be hard to add. Issues with Agere firmware
are irrelevant since hostap doesn't support it. Are there any other
issues you have in mind?
Last I checked, the orinoco_cs driver couldn't even put a prism2 card in
monitor mode. I just tried it again and that is working, but the
channel hopping control doesn't seem to work properly at all. As an
example, airodump-ng cannot hop channels (which I'm reporting to the
aircrack-ng team next). I know that the idea of having one driver for
the two devices may seem like a good idea, but I've always been against
it because in fact the orinoco cards were a poor implementation of a
modified prism2 reference implementation. I mean no disrespect to the
orinoco driver team (yes Pavel, I see your name on it) but the driver
simply is not nearly as mature as the hostap drivers. The additional
functionality of the hostap drivers such as master mode, monitor mode
headers, and firmware loading (both flash and ram) make is an excellent
choice to be maintained at least in the foreseeable future.
That said, if there is anyone with some interest in fixing the monitor
mode inject which was broken in kernel 2.6.21 I would be happy to
provide you with everything I know if you can help (I have a lot of
documentation and the existing patch sets). Sadly, my coding skills
only let me work on very minor things.
Thanks,
Rick Farina
I understand that hostap needs some work, and it would be nice if
someone volunteered to help fix the packet injection, but removing this
driver in favor of orinoco_cs would be a serious regression.
At this point, I agree. It's better that we concentrate on fixing known
issues rather than on choosing which driver to remove.
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