[IWLWIFI] Few questions about its advanced features

[IWLWIFI] Few questions about its advanced features

[Maxim Levitsky]

Hi,

I want to know whenever iwlwifi 3945 supports those features:
(I want to learn wireless a bit, don't think that I want to hack
into somebody's network... unless its mine)

* Master mode (turn the card into access point)
* Monitoring of raw wireless traffic
* Ability to send raw wireless packets (packet injection)


Best regards,
	Maxim Levitsky

Re: [IWLWIFI] Few questions about its advanced features

[Maxim Levitsky]

Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I want to know whenever iwlwifi 3945 supports those features:
> (I want to learn wireless a bit, don't think that I want to hack
> into somebody's network... unless its mine)
> 
> * Master mode (turn the card into access point)
> * Monitoring of raw wireless traffic
> * Ability to send raw wireless packets (packet injection)
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> 	Maxim Levitsky


At least it seems that driver does support monitor/injection,
but this doesn't work.

monitor mode seems to show only beacon frames.

I see that the AP mode isn't supported, but driver has some code to 
support it.

My question is, are there plans to add AP mode to iwlwifi?

Best regards,
	Maxim Levitsky

Re: [ipw3945-devel] [IWLWIFI] Few questions about its advanced features

[Zhu Yi]

On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 18:50 +0300, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> My question is, are there plans to add AP mode to iwlwifi?

You can find a working AP based on an old version of mac80211 at this
point. We will port the code to latest mac80211 after 5000 is merged.
http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/chuyee/wireless/iwl4965_ap/

Thanks,
-yi

Re: [ipw3945-devel] [IWLWIFI] Few questions about its advanced features

[Maxim Levitsky]

Zhu Yi wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 18:50 +0300, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
>> My question is, are there plans to add AP mode to iwlwifi?
> 
> You can find a working AP based on an old version of mac80211 at this
> point. We will port the code to latest mac80211 after 5000 is merged.
> http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/chuyee/wireless/iwl4965_ap/
> 
> Thanks,
> -yi
> 

Thanks a lot,

The above means that intel wireless  will soon be the ultimate
wireless device in Linux.
Thanks intel!

Best regards,
	Maxim Levitsky