From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Sep 5 10:44:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from blues.jpj.net (blues.jpj.net [204.97.17.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6DF937B40B for ; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 10:44:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (benh@localhost) by blues.jpj.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f85HikW17652; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 13:44:46 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 13:44:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Ben Hockenhull To: David Wolfskill Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Aironet, Ethereal and raw 802.11 frames In-Reply-To: <200109051728.f85HSmd18196@bunrab.catwhisker.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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