On Sun January 23 2011 18:06:39 Johannes Berg wrote: > On Sat, 2011-01-22 at 03:11 +0300, Paul Fertser wrote: > > This makes it possible to retrieve the channel for the monitor interface > > in cases when it can be determined unambigously. Tested with ath5k. > > NAK. > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/61860 > I don't think so -- I don't recall anyone ever asking before ;-) I definetly want this functionality for my WLAN monitoring tool ("horst" - http://br1.einfach.org/horst). A similar patch has also been discussed for aircrack-ng in June 2010 (https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/103589/). I understand your point of not wanting to report wrong information, esp when we have multiple interfaces on different channels - but in most situations for sniffers etc this is not the case, we just have one monitor interface or one interface + one monitor interface, in which cases I believe we should be able to report a channel. So just for the record: I want it, pretty please! :) bruno -- 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
