[ath9k-devel] Can't associate with a particular AP

[Julien Valroff <julien@kirya.net>]

Le vendredi 28 oct. 2011 ? 10:35:19 (+0200 CEST), Jouni Malinen a ?crit?:
> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 06:26:53AM +0200, Julien Valroff wrote:
> > Le jeudi 27 oct. 2011 ? 22:27:58 (+0200 CEST), Jouni Malinen a ?crit?:
> > > Which drivers did you use in these tests?
> > 
> > brcmsmac and b43
> 
> brcmsmac does not support monitor mode. b43 is claimed to support that,
> but I've never tried. Though, if you are using a 802.11g card, it won't
> be able to show IEEE 802.11n frames. If you happen to have any other
> wireless cards, they could be more suitable for this purpose.

Unfortunately, I do not have anything on hand. I'll try and check if I can
borrow another laptop and use a live cd but I'm not sure of the wlan card of
this laptop.

> > mon0 which was captured was in monitoring mode, but not wlan0, which
> > might explain this problem. But when setting wlan0 in monitoring mode, I
> > cannot get anything captured.
> > 
> > > Which driver was used in this case?
> > 
> > brcmsmac
> 
> You won't get the this working with that driver until monitor mode
> support has been added to it..

I have just tried again with b43, and got nothing captured. I have also
tried adding a monitoring interface, but got the same things as captured
yesterday using brcmsmac.

I'll try FreeBSD during the week-end.

Cheers,
Julien

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