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Re: [PATCH] iwlwifi: Make injection of non-broadcast frames work again

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On Fri, 2009-08-21 at 15:21 +0200, Gábor Stefanik wrote:

> > And remove the warning in the
> > default case, since that's what happens if in pure monitor mode afaict.
> 
> From my limited testing, in monitor mode, the vif type will be
> IFTYPE_STATION, so the default case is never hit. (Is this a bug?)

It's the way iwlwifi handles things I guess.

> (BTW now that in mac80211, we internally use IFTYPE_MONITOR in monitor
> mode, as opposed to just checking for a missing STA - why can't we
> propagate this to the drivers, and have a much saner way of informing
> the driver of monitor mode? This is especially a problem for zd1211rw,
> where to get proper monitor mode, ZD_SNIFFER_ON needs to be turned
> on.)

Think about it again (hint: multiple interfaces), and then ask the
question again.

johannes

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