On Tue, 25 May 2004, conloos wrote:
Hi all,
yesterday i compiled der cvs drivers and tryed to set my card (orinoco gold)
in monitor mode. but it is only sucsessful with the 0.15rc1 .. is the cvs
broken??
Not for me.
You didn't give the exact error message. I suppose you have a card with
Agere firmware 8.xx. They work in monitor mode for some time but then the
firmware stops receiving frames. The card may generate random errors or
even cause an interrupt storm. In particular, changing the channel
triggers the firmware bug, so AirSnort kills the card in a few seconds
when in the channel scanning mode.
The patch by AirSnort resets the card every time the channel is changes.
It still doesn't solve the problem completely. It just makes it more
rare.
That's the reason why monitor mode was disabled for Agere 8.xx firmware.
6.16 firmware is working in monitor mode. I don't have a working Windows
system to test 7.xx firmware (it detects all cards as MTD-0002 and I don't
have time to reinstall it). If anybody can test 7.xx firmware it I'll
appreciate it.
If monitor mode worked for you reliably in 0.15rc1, I'm interested to know
what firmware version you are using. I can re-enable support for that
version. Please post the kernel log starting from firmware detection.
Please run CVS AirSnort with version 0.15rc1 in scanning mode and let is
work for at least 5 minutes to see if it stops.
I've just added a warning to the driver that the monitor mode is disabled
for some firmware versions.
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Regards,
Pavel Roskin
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