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Thanks for the answer!
I have read somewhere that the Broadcom 4330 chipset on Samsung Galaxy
S II cannot be put to monitor mode because of some hardware
limitation. Is that true? Can someone confirm that?

Regards,

Robert

On 10 February 2012 19:20, Franky Lin <frankyl@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 02/08/2012 10:53 AM, Kiss Robert wrote:
>>
>> On 2012-02-03 21:57:27, Franky Lin wrote:
>>>
>>> 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
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Does that mean that the Android driver for bcm4330 has a working
>> monitor mode already? Where can I download that?
>>
>
> Hi,
>
> I need to correct my words after some digging. The Android version does
> *NOT* fully support monitor mode. It has some partial support there for P2P
> implementation. But some packets are held by the dongle because of filter
> offload. Sorry about the wrong info.
>
> Regards,
> Franky
>
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