From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: "Jack" <kflu@cs.nctu.edu.tw>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Is it possible to receive packets without MAC address filtering?
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:26:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200801241326.25051.mb@bu3sch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000001c85e80$46d1ab70$d4750250$@nctu.edu.tw>
On Thursday 24 January 2008 12:57:20 Jack wrote:
> I'm planning to do a SoftMAC project such as the one based on Madwifi. My
You're doing what? SoftMAC? Yet another 802.11 stack?
> platform is based on bcm43xx (Buffalo WLI2-PCI-G54S). I traced the b43
> device driver for several days. I found that B43_MACCTL_KEEP_CTL and
> B43_MACCTL_BEACPROMISC was set in monitor mode. So, I manually set these two
> bits in the driver. However, it doesn't work like iwconfig the device into
> monitor mode. I use Wireshark to verify it. I also tried to set
> B43_MACCTL_PROMISC bit. It doesn't work either.
You must be doing something wrong. Setting the promisc bits should be enough.
--
Greetings Michael.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-24 12:27 UTC|newest]
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2008-01-24 11:57 Is it possible to receive packets without MAC address filtering? Jack
2008-01-24 12:26 ` Michael Buesch [this message]
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