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Re: ath5k past 2.6.30 breaks monitor mode (and thus the aircrack suite)

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2010/5/17 Weedy <weedy2887@xxxxxxxxx>:
> 2010/5/16 Gábor Stefanik <netrolller.3d@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 10:41 PM, Weedy <weedy2887@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Running airodump on ubuntus 2.6.30 kernel works as expected. The
>>> 2.6.32 kernel shipped in lucid never sees data packets.
>>>
>>> I have narrowed it down to channel hopping. modprobing the driver and
>>> starting mon0 on a fixed channel works as expected, but allowing
>>> airodump to channel hop breaks the interface until the driver is
>>> reset.
>>>
>>> I wrote a script to download and build compat wireless starting from
>>> 2009-01-01 (granted everything fails until half way through october),
>>> but every version that is successfully installed also show the same
>>> bug.
>>>
>>> Further instructions welcome.
>>
>> Try checking out linux-2.6, and doing a bisect between 2.6.30 and 2.6.32.
>
> Do I have to check out the entire kernel? even with scripting my
> netbook would take forever to do this.
>

Yes, you need to check out the entire repo - but with git, you do not
need to re-download the whole tree everytime you check out a new
revision; it is a distributed system. git is not CVS. :-)

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