Re: Multiple interfaces in mac80211

[Ivo van Doorn <ivdoorn@gmail.com>]

On Friday 06 July 2007, Jon Smirl wrote:
> On 7/6/07, Ivo van Doorn <ivdoorn@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Friday 06 July 2007, Jon Smirl wrote:
> > > On 7/6/07, Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
> > > > On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 08:55 -0400, Jon Smirl wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Yes, only interface is monitor.
> > > > >
> > > > > Here is something else that is odd.
> > > > >
> > > > > Beacons are reporting channel 1...
> > > > >
> > > > > But I am tuned to channel 10.
> > > >
> > > > That's fishy. What hardware?
> > >
> > > Ralink rt2x00usb
> >
> > Thats odd, are only beacons reported to be on channel 1?
> > Because the channel for rx frames is automatically set when
> > the channel is configured by mac80211.
> 
> The channel field appears to be uninitialized for beacon frames. When
> I booted this time it is displaying channel 9 and I am on channel 10.
> 
> Other frames show channel 10 as expected.

Which is quite weird since the beacon frames use the same rx_status structure
as the regular frames. No distinction is made within rt2x00 between rx frames...

Ivo