Quoting David Gibson <david-xT8FGy+AXnRB3Ne2BGzF6laj5H9X9Tb+@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > What has changed in the time from 0.11b (with patches?) to 0.15rc2,
> > and how to make it work again?
>
> Pavel could answer this better that I can, since he did the monitor
> mode merge. But, I believe the problem is that *most* of the time
> monitor mode works fine on the 8.xx firmwares, but occasionally it
> falls over very, very nastily. Pavel made the judgement that it was
> safer to disable it entirely than to risk the bad failure mode.
Correct. Also, it would be incorrect to interpret it as a regression in the
driver. The unofficial patches were never applied completely. The part that
was applied has no specific workarounds for 8.xx firmware. The workaround was
to reset the firmware on channel change. Maybe it's working perfectly for
others, but it wasn't nearly perfect for me. AirSnort with channel scanning
would eventually cause interrupt storm in the 8.xx firmware even with resets on
channel change.
If anybody wants 8.xx workarounds to be in the driver, please send a tested
patch. Testing should include running AirSnort with channel scanning for at
least one hour.
--
Regards,
Pavel Roskin
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