While debugging recent wireless problems, I gave the aircrack suite a
shot, and found this thread.
How about this patch to fix this issue:
commit fffd6e63ea75850dafbf2ccfb38a4189f43c0282
Author: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue Jun 1 15:43:21 2010 +0300
wireless: allow to retrieve the channel set on monitor interface
This will allow to preserve compatibility with userspace
Signed-off-by: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@xxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/net/wireless/chan.c b/net/wireless/chan.c
index b01a6f6..09d979b 100644
--- a/net/wireless/chan.c
+++ b/net/wireless/chan.c
@@ -49,9 +49,12 @@ int cfg80211_set_freq(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev,
{
struct ieee80211_channel *chan;
int result;
+ struct wireless_dev *mon_dev = NULL;
- if (wdev && wdev->iftype == NL80211_IFTYPE_MONITOR)
+ if (wdev && wdev->iftype == NL80211_IFTYPE_MONITOR) {
+ mon_dev = wdev;
wdev = NULL;
+ }
if (wdev) {
ASSERT_WDEV_LOCK(wdev);
@@ -76,5 +79,8 @@ int cfg80211_set_freq(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev,
if (wdev)
wdev->channel = chan;
+ if (mon_dev)
+ mon_dev->channel = chan;
+
return 0;
}
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