On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:01:09 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote > > The ath5k rx filter for unicast frames requires mac addresses to match in > > order to accept or ack frames. However, in monitor mode, mac80211 will > > never call add_interface(). Instead, it should configure the filter to > > put the card in promiscuous mode which then should enable all packets > > to be passed back to the host. > > FWIW, this is as designed, if you need to have ACKs then you need to > bring up a monitor as well as a regular interface. Stefanik, please do > that and report whether it works. So in that case, ath5k definitely should not upload a mac until a normal interface is brought up, i.e. we should keep the current functionality? It's interesting that b43 works without a regular interface, by my reading of its code the mac is also loaded and cleared at add/remove interface time. -- Bob Copeland %% www.bobcopeland.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
