Hello!
Please stop crossposting.
On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 15:22 +0100, abuas_z wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Please tell me why new cvx and 0.15 orinoco-pcmcia not support
> monitor mode on 8.72 firmware with channel hoping and this monitor
> mode is unstable...
I believe I answered this question already. It's not reliable,
especially when channel scanning is used. This question was already
discussed in this mailing list many times.
> Old 0.13e drivers didn't support directly monitor mode, but with
> rtfmon and dragorn patches + patches for 2.6.x kernel support these
> old drivers for orinoco-pcmcia are the best for monitoring purposes.
> They support all firmwares (also without problem 8.72 with channel
> hoping) and works stable in monitor mode without any interrupts.
> These patched drivers with full monitor and kismet mode support you
> could download from:
>
> http://www.kismetwireless.net/code/orinoco-0.13-26-r1.tar.gz
>
> HOWTO: http://www.kismetwireless.net/HOWTO-orinoco-drivers.txt
>
I know.
> So, why 0.15 and cvs line of this drivers don't support channel
> hoping in monitor mode in 8.72 firmware and monitor mode is very
> unstable?
Because nobody did it. I tried it and it didn't work for me. I had to
disable monitor mode for problematic firmware. If you can do it better,
please be my guest and post a patch against CVS that works properly.
But please don't overuse hard resets, or such patch would have no
chances to be accepted.
> I must add, that generally new drivers in CVS are better than 0.13
> to usual work, they support wireless tools, iwlist scanning, etc,
> etc. But monitoring with kismet in newest drivers is practically
> impossible (that wrote me kimset developer). And unfortunately there
> is no monitor patch for orinoco-usb devices...
Monitor mode worked for me for Orinoco USB when I had access to the
hardware. It was the driver from CVS HEAD. It should still work.
--
Regards,
Pavel Roskin
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