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From: Andy Green <andy@warmcat.com>
To: "Jorge Lucángeli Obes" <t4m5yn@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Monitor mode with RTL8187
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 06:21:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4693176F.6070407@warmcat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <59abf66e0707091451p3913ba5enf35edd934840b3cb@mail.gmail.com>

Jorge Luc=E1ngeli Obes wrote:
> Hi all,
> I've come into possession of a RTL8187-based wireless USB adapter
> (Encore ENUWI-G2). I am trying the new RTL8187 driver in wireless-dev
> GIT. The question is: does this driver support monitor mode?
>=20
> tamsyn@rory:~$ sudo iwconfig wlan0 mode monitor
> Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
>    SET failed on device wlan0 ; Device or resource busy.
>=20
> Any clues? Please CC me as I'm not subscribed to the list. Thanks in
> advance.

mac80211 needs you to bring the interface down before changing the mode

ifconfig wlan0 down

Then after changing the mode, bring it up and set the channel.

-Andy
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  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-10  5:21 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 [this message]
2007-07-10  8:07   ` Stefan Schweizer
2007-07-10  8:50     ` Michael Buesch
2007-07-10 23:02       ` Johannes Berg
2007-07-10 10:14     ` Andy Green

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