From: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
To: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linville@tuxdriver.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] carl9170: fix spurious transmissions in sniffer mode
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 10:59:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201210131059.53325.chunkeey@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201209112318.35334.chunkeey@googlemail.com>
On Tuesday 11 September 2012 23:18:34 Christian Lamparter wrote:
> Several people have complained about an unusual
> and undocumented feature of the AR9170 hardware:
>
> In siffer mode, the hardware generates spurious
> ACK frames for every received frame... even
> broadcasts.
>
> The reason for this malfunction is unknown:
> <http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=134517238506033>
> But there's a workaround: Instead of the special
> sniffer mode, the hardware will be put into
> station mode and all rx filters are disabled.
>
> Reported-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
> Reported-by: Marco Fonseca <marco@tampabay.rr.com>
> Reported-by: Janusz Dziedzic <janusz.dziedzic@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
> ---
John,
Do you have doubts about this patch, or is there a problem
that I don't know about?
Regards,
Chr
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-13 8:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-11 21:18 [PATCH] carl9170: fix spurious transmissions in sniffer mode Christian Lamparter
2012-09-11 22:03 ` Richard Farina
2012-09-11 23:26 ` Christian Lamparter
2012-09-11 23:46 ` Richard Farina
2012-09-12 1:08 ` Christian Lamparter
2012-09-12 7:09 ` Johannes Berg
2012-10-13 8:59 ` Christian Lamparter [this message]
2012-10-26 18:07 ` Christian Lamparter
2012-10-26 21:03 ` John W. Linville
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