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

[Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>]

Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> I noticed two bugs:
>=20
> 1) Monitor mode hangs the system randomly, and what is interesting th=
at=20
> this
> bug disappears if I patch the driver with packet injection patch from=
=20
> G=E1bor Stefanik.
> I noticed this bug, after I removed his patch to see if it caused som=
e=20
> problems.
> Always reproducible, usually hangs just after airodump launch.
>=20
> 2) If I enable monitor mode regardless of injection patch, the scanni=
ng=20
> results got garbaged,
> iwlist scan reports > 100 quality on most APs, or 0% quality on my=20
> router, 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=20
> appears to be not related to it.
I noticed that exactly same bug happens if I enable promisc mode on the=
=20
wlan0. Does this give any additional clue why this bug happens?

Best regards,
	Maxim levitsky
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