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Date:      Mon, 23 Feb 2004 09:24:47 -0800
From:      Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com>
To:        "Adams, Kevin" <Kevin.Adams@compuware.com>, "'freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: 802.11 "monitor mode" issues
Message-ID:  <200402230924.47851.sam@errno.com>
In-Reply-To: <A58643BEDEF7D211BABB0008C75D853F1CB7909C@fhpri01.compuware.com>
References:  <A58643BEDEF7D211BABB0008C75D853F1CB7909C@fhpri01.compuware.com>

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On Monday 23 February 2004 08:41 am, Adams, Kevin wrote:
> Sam,
>
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> I tried it and did not see ANY debug info this time.  I think that's a good
> thing.  But on the 'ifconfig' output, the 'status' field stated that it was
> 'associated'.  Just an observation.
>
> Also, am I to assume that the 'monitor mode' itself, does not increment
> thru the channels, it has to be done via the 'ifconfig' or ioctl in a
> program?

Correct.  kismet or similar will scan channels or you can do it manually with 
ifconfig (something I routinely do--start a tcpdump or ethereal and then go 
to another window and switch channels).

	Sam



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