From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com ([209.85.198.239]:35298 "EHLO rv-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754019AbYEEJbT (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 May 2008 05:31:19 -0400 Received: by rv-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id l9so1048728rvb.1 for ; Mon, 05 May 2008 02:31:18 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <1ba2fa240805050231j3b975b8bi7d46fa9f7c2701e4@mail.gmail.com> (sfid-20080505_113041_177069_3843B519) Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 12:31:18 +0300 From: "Tomas Winkler" To: "Johannes Berg" Subject: Re: [PATCH 20/25] iwlwifi : Set monitor mode for 4965 Cc: "Zhu Yi" , linville@tuxdriver.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, "Abhijeet Kolekar" In-Reply-To: <1209978354.3655.24.camel@johannes.berg> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 References: <1209954172-3092-1-git-send-email-yi.zhu@intel.com> <1209954172-3092-18-git-send-email-yi.zhu@intel.com> <1209954172-3092-19-git-send-email-yi.zhu@intel.com> <1209954172-3092-20-git-send-email-yi.zhu@intel.com> <1209954172-3092-21-git-send-email-yi.zhu@intel.com> <1209971503.3655.0.camel@johannes.berg> <1209974740.2827.124.camel@debian.sh.intel.com> <1209976096.3655.19.camel@johannes.berg> <1209977598.2827.134.camel@debian.sh.intel.com> <1209978354.3655.24.camel@johannes.berg> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Johannes Berg 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