From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: Stefan Schweizer <genstef@gentoo.org>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Monitor mode with RTL8187
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 10:50:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200707101050.17043.mb@bu3sch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f6vep6$n3$1@sea.gmane.org>
On Tuesday 10 July 2007 10:07:02 Stefan Schweizer wrote:
> Andy Green wrote:
> > ifconfig wlan0 down
> >
> > Then after changing the mode, bring it up and set the channel.
>
> why can it not do that automatically when issueing the mode monitor command?
>
> Seems usability has not yet reached wireless configuration - where it is imo
> much needed.
ehm, setting the mode means setting the mode. Not bringing the device
up, changing channels or something like that.
The time where some wireless config commands magically trigger unrelated
events (ESSID setting triggers assoc) is over, with the advent of cfg80211.
And that is _good_.
--
Greetings Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-10 8:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-09 21:51 Monitor mode with RTL8187 Jorge Lucángeli Obes
2007-07-10 5:21 ` Andy Green
2007-07-10 8:07 ` Stefan Schweizer
2007-07-10 8:50 ` Michael Buesch [this message]
2007-07-10 23:02 ` Johannes Berg
2007-07-10 10:14 ` Andy Green
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