On 02/03/2012 01:28 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
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
Monitor mode is not supported in fullmac at the moment. I am afraid we
don't have an ETA as well. But if for mobile devices you mean Android
devices using Broadcom wifi chipset, current Android driver does have
monitor mode support.
Franky
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