From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
To: Nils Holland <nholland@tisys.org>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Subject: Re: [v2] rtl8187: Enable monitor mode to fix multicast reception
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2017 15:08:03 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170308150803.DA679607A4@smtp.codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170219235919.GA15763@tisys.org>
Nils Holland <nholland@tisys.org> wrote:
> The rtl8187 cards don't seem to receive multicast frames, which,
> among other things, makes them fail to receive RAs in IPv6 networks.
> The cause seems to be that the RTL818X_RX_CONF_MULTICAST flag doesn't
> have the desired effect.
>
> Fix the issue by setting RTL818X_RX_CONF_MONITOR instead, which puts the
> card into monitor mode and resolves the problem so that multicast frames
> are sucessfully passed to the kernel.
>
> The existence of the problem and the effectiveness of the solution has
> originally been confirmed on an 8187B based card with the USB id of
> 0bda:8197. Subsequent testing by Larry Finger on an 8187L based card,
> which follows the second (8187, i.e. "non-b") code path in the driver,
> has confirmed that the fix does not cause any noticeable regresssions
> there either.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nils Holland <nholland@tisys.org>
> Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Patch applied to wireless-drivers-next.git, thanks.
3beb27028c44 rtl8187: Enable monitor mode to fix multicast reception
--
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9581905/
Documentation about submitting wireless patches and checking status
from patchwork:
https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-08 15:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-19 23:59 [PATCH v2] rtl8187: Enable monitor mode to fix multicast reception Nils Holland
2017-02-20 1:17 ` Larry Finger
2017-02-20 6:35 ` Rafał Miłecki
2017-02-20 16:18 ` Larry Finger
2017-02-20 17:50 ` Rafał Miłecki
2017-03-08 15:08 ` Kalle Valo [this message]
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