[ath9k-devel] Monitor mode question

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

Lenin Ravindranath S a ?crit :
> I am running 2.6.27.37-170.2.104.fc10.i686.
That much! :-) There has been lots of changes since then. I would advice 
you to try 2.6.32 or compat-wireless.
>
> Can you point me to the patch that will enable me to set rates?
> Even the b/g rates doesn't seem to work. The packets are sent out at 
> 1Mbps always.
Yup. These are patches from Matteo :
http://teknoraver.net/software/radiotap_mcs/

Regards,
Benoit
>
> On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 3:18 AM, Benoit PAPILLAULT 
> <benoit.papillault at free.fr <mailto:benoit.papillault@free.fr>> wrote:
>
>     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
>
>