Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 13:44:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Ben Hockenhull <benh@jpj.net> To: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org> Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Aironet, Ethereal and raw 802.11 frames Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.4.05L.10109051340180.8821-100000@blues.jpj.net> In-Reply-To: <200109051728.f85HSmd18196@bunrab.catwhisker.org>
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> If you are using the "stock" FreeBSD "an" driver, that would account for > the problem(s) you're seeing. The driver needs some patches in order to > use what is called "monitor mode" (where raw 802.11 frames can be made > available via bpf). (If you've applied the patches, you need to use > "ancontrol -M" to set the monitor mode.) > > Doug Ambrisko's patches to do this may be found at > http://www.ambrisko.com/doug/an/. However, they are based on a -STABLE > that is a few weeks old, and some of the patches may not apply cleanly. Ah ha! That does indeed explain it. I just now tried Doug's patches and they did not all apply cleanly, so if you could generate a patchset based on today's -STABLE, I'll cvsup and apply those patches. Are there plans to integrate these changes into -CURRENT or -STABLE at some point? Many thanks. Ben To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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