From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Oleksij Rempel Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2016 07:13:44 +0100 Subject: [ath9k-devel] ath9k_htc - Netgear WNDA3200 - monitor mode In-Reply-To: <56F0676C.7040905@beardandsandals.co.uk> References: <56F0676C.7040905@beardandsandals.co.uk> Message-ID: <56F0E298.3060106@rempel-privat.de> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org Am 21.03.2016 um 22:28 schrieb Roger James: > Hi, > > I am trying to use a Netgear WNDA3200 usb dongle plugged into a box > running Ubuntu 15.10 to monitor a WPA2_PSK encrypted network. This stick > uses the AR7010+AR9280 chipsets. For the particular problem I am > investigating I need to as much of the traffic on the channel as I can. > However I seem to miss almost all of the unicast traffic. I have come > across this problem many times before on other wireless chipsets. I was > hoping the Atheros would be different. I can see unicast 802.11 > management traffic but not protected unicast data/qos data frames. I > have hacked the driver to give me the current filter settings via > debugfs and this is what I see. > > RXFILTER: 0xc03f UCAST MCAST BCAST CONTROL BEACON PROM PSPOLL > MCAST_BCAST_ALL > > Which looks OK to me. I have also checked that all the packets seen by > driver make it up to user level. > > Is this expected behaviour? > > Is this something to do with htc USB chipset? > > Is this something to do with a Netgear customisation? > > Has anyone else seen this kind of behaviour? > > Is there any way round it? > > Help!! This is driving me nuts. I have done so many tests with this and > other adapters that I have lost the plot. > > I have a whole slew of tests and results available on request. But I > won't clutter the list with them. I would not guarantee that all filter settings are passed correctly. You will need need to check it in the firmware. https://github.com/qca/open-ath9k-htc-firmware -- Regards, Oleksij -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 213 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature Url : http://lists.ath9k.org/pipermail/ath9k-devel/attachments/20160322/8367b2a6/attachment.pgp