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Date:      Tue, 12 Jun 2001 09:50:00 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@ambrisko.com>
To:        David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org>
Cc:        sam@inf.enst.fr, mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Aeronet and SSID
Message-ID:  <200106121650.f5CGo1o46921@ambrisko.com>
In-Reply-To: <200106121545.f5CFjh282966@bunrab.catwhisker.org> "from David Wolfskill at Jun 12, 2001 08:45:43 am"

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David Wolfskill writes:
| >Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 17:35:20 +0200
| >From: Samuel Tardieu <sam@inf.enst.fr>
| 
| >| Please see http://www.ambrisko.com/doug/an/ for some patches (against
| >| -STABLE) to accomplish this.
| 
| >Thanks a lot for this pointer.
| 
| Glad to help.  One caution, though:  at this point, it is my
| understanding that what the patches do is provide a way to capture the
| raw 802.11 frames via bpf.  So any interpretation of them would need to
| be done elsewhere; an example of that would be using Ethereal (8.17+),
| while last I checked, tcpdump professes ignorance of the frame type.
| 
| >Do you know if those patches have already been applied to -CURRENT? (which
| >I am running on my laptop, just for fun (well, ...))

Some of the bug fixes have been submitted via send-pr.  Right now I don't
have time to manage both -stable and -current patch sets since the 
code is fairly different (due to some patches being applied or not).

| As I understand it, the patches were developed under -STABLE, and have
| yet to be brought over to -CURRENT.  (I had volunteered to help Doug
| with that, so I suppose I ought to get to work.  Still, there shouldn't
| be a huge amount of change.)

Not yet atleast just some of the ifmedia patches.

Doug A.

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