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

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2010/5/25 Gábor Stefanik <netrolller.3d@xxxxxxxxx>:
> On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Bob Copeland <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 2010/5/25 Weedy <weedy2887@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>> 2010/5/24 Gábor Stefanik <netrolller.3d@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>>> 2010/5/25 Weedy <weedy2887@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>>>> 2010/5/23 Gábor Stefanik <netrolller.3d@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>>>>> In the meantime, one thing to test: Add a printk of sc->opmode.
>>>>>
>>>>> May 24 22:04:20 tiny-h4x kernel: [41147.243149] sc->opmode: 02 (over9000 times)
>>>>>
>>>>> So i'm guessing I did it wrong (I don't know C).
>>>>>        printk(KERN_NOTICE "sc->opmode: %02x\n", sc->opmode);
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> No, that is correct, and proves my theory (2 is NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION
>>>> - it should be 6 for monitor mode).
>>>>
>>>> BTW, please use "Reply to all".
>>>>
>>> gmail got rid of the "Reply to all by default" option :<
>>>
>>> When you have a patch I will be waiting.
>>
>> Sorry, I missed this thread somehow.  Thanks for the detective
>> work and apologies for my stupid goof.  Gábor, are you prepping
>> a patch?  I can fix it if you like.
>>
>
> If you can, please fix it - I know what the bug is, but have no solid
> idea about a fix.

Ok, it should be enough to look at the filter flags instead of
the opmode -- I knew in the back of my mind that the monitor
stuff was bogus (part of the reason I did the patch in the first
place) but just got confused by what was already there I guess.

-- 
Bob Copeland %% www.bobcopeland.com
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