[ath9k-devel] Monitor mode question

[Benoit PAPILLAULT <benoit.papillault@free.fr>]

Lenin Ravindranath S a ?crit :
> Hi,
> 
> I am new to ath9k. I have a DWA-642 card and I am trying to set it in
> monitor mode to inject and receive packets.
> 
> I did
> 
> iw dev wlan0 interface add fish0 type monitor
> ifconfig fish0 up
> 
> 
> I have two problems
> 1. The interface is able to get only packets which has destination
> address as a broadcast address (FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF) and not every packet
> in the air.

That's not expected. Maybe you should set the channel as well :
iw dev fish0 set channel 1

> 
> 2. Whatever rate I set in radiotap header to inject packet, the packet
> goes out at only 1Mbps. I tried to use both packetspammer and "click
> router" to try to inject packets.

Indeed, that's not implemented. There are patches to do it however.

> 
> Am I missing some flags/settings?

Yes. What kernel are you using?

> 
> Thanks
> Lenin

Regards,
Benoit