Re: IPW2200 monitoring FW broken

[James Ketrenos <jketreno@linux.intel.com>]

Michael Buesch wrote:
> Is IPW2200 monitoring FW still broken?
> I miss huge amounts of packets when I try to monitor
> some traffic.
> 
> I'm using current wireless-2.6 + v3.0 firmware.
> 
> Using two antennas.
> 

What type of frames?  Data or management & control?

If you use wireshark to capture, you can't update the packet capture 
window or you'll lose packets; but you should be able to get them all if 
you're doing a tethereal > somefile or if you turn off the update of the 
main window.

I'm not sure if it can capture control frames or not.  I seem to recall 
it getting some ACK frames but I don't think it was passing up all of 
them, or if it ever passed up the CTS frames.  But you should be getting 
the bulk of the data frames.

Yi -- do you recall what the ipw2200 firmware would pass up?

James