On 02/03/2012 10:28 PM, Daniel Smith wrote: > Hey Arend, > > On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Arend van Spriel <arend@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On 02/03/2012 09:01 PM, Daniel Smith wrote: >>> Hi >>> >>> I see on the "To be done list" for both the fullmac and softmac chips >>> is to add support for monitor mode. I was wondering how realistic is >>> that task. If it is definitely going to occur, any idea what it will >>> support, e.g. capturing management frames. Also any kind of hint what >>> kind of time frame are you looking at? Any info would be greatly >>> appreciated. >>> >>> V/r, >>> Daniel Smith >>> >> >> For brcmsmac it has already been done just using the radiotap >> functionality. I did not implement it, but I think this functionality is >> provided by cfg80211. Not sure if that is sufficient info. >> >> Gr. AvS >> > t > Thanks for the quick response and that is excellent to hear! Is there > any word on the fullmac side? I am actually interested in both as I > will be dealing with both standard and mobile devices. Due to the > popularity of your chips, it would be great if I could add Broadcom to > my list of viable chips. > > Thanks! > dps > With fullmac chip management frames are normally not sent to the host so there is a bit more work involved, but still realistic. At this moment I can not really give a date when to expect it. Gr. AvS -- 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
