Re: [BUG] Two bugs in monitor mode, iwl3945

[Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>]

Stefanik G=E1bor wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 11:10 AM, Maxim Levitsky
> <maximlevitsky@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I noticed two bugs:
>>
>> 1) Monitor mode hangs the system randomly, and what is interesting t=
hat this
>> bug disappears if I patch the driver with packet injection patch fro=
m G=E1bor
>> Stefanik.
>> I noticed this bug, after I removed his patch to see if it caused so=
me
>> problems.
>> Always reproducible, usually hangs just after airodump launch.
>=20
> Something tries to transmit on the monitor interface, which is
> impossible without the injection patch. However, the method used for
> preventing TX in monitor mode is incorrect (it just drops the packet
> silently, without notifying mac80211, which, in the absence of an ACK=
,
> tries to retransmit the packet - an obvious infinite loop). This is
> what causes the freeze. (Do you have networkmanager running? That
> often tends to interfere with monitor interfaces.)
I have it running, I will test without it.
>=20
>> 2) If I enable monitor mode regardless of injection patch, the scann=
ing
>> results got garbaged,
>> iwlist scan reports > 100 quality on most APs, or 0% quality on my r=
outer,
>> shows extremely low and hi power levels, like
>> -127dBm or 160 dBm, and those levels change rapidly.
>> This why I removed the injection patch, I suspected it, but this bug=
 appears
>> to be not related to it.
>=20
> Does this also happen if you create an extra managed or AP (AP
> requires a patch to mac80211) interface, or is it specific to monitor
> interfaces?
If I create any interface, managed/ibss/monitor nothing bad happens.
But when I turn the mon0 up (ifconfig mon0 up), this happens.

I can't turn on other interfaces (managed/ibss), ifconfig complains tha=
t interface is busy
I think that it isn't allowed to run two managed interfaces in same tim=
e, don't know why.


Best regards,
	Maxim Levitsky
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