Re: [PATCH 20/25] iwlwifi : Set monitor mode for 4965

Tomas Winkler
2008-05-05T09:31:19Z

On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Johannes Berg
<johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
>
> > The thing is the firmware treats it as a different mode. For 4965, we
> > explicitly setup the "sniffer" type to the firmware so that it operates
> > differently with other modes. Some drivers (i.e ipw2200) have separated
> > firmware images for bss, ibss and monitor modes.
>
> Uh, ok. Weird firmware :)

Yi, we can open pretty much everything even in BSS mode, using
filter_flags in rxon command.

Tomas