From: Andy Green <andy@warmcat.com>
To: Ulrich Kunitz <kune@deine-taler.de>
Cc: linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: mac80211 driver interface semantics
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 08:59:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46B2E06F.4090706@warmcat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070803052935.GA12683@deine-taler.de>
Somebody in the thread at some point said:
> As far as I know the phy0/add_iface entry can be used to add a new
> interface. Notify though the "file" has write access for other,
> you will need network admin capabilities, which is satisfied by
> being root. For example:
>
> # cat mon0 >/sys/class/net/wmaster0/phy80211/add_iface
echo -n mon0 ... ;-)
you can also come at this through
/sys/class/ieee80211/phy<n>/add_iface
Nice idea to document it Daniel. Seeing it written down makes it a
little more obviously "huh?" about the hard and soft monitor distinction
IMO. There seems to be some agreement that in the future the number of
virtual interfaces that happen to be lying around shouldn't determine
the functionality of Monitor mode like that.
-Andy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-03 7:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-03 0:30 mac80211 driver interface semantics Daniel Drake
2007-08-03 5:29 ` Ulrich Kunitz
2007-08-03 7:59 ` Andy Green [this message]
2007-08-03 9:54 ` Johannes Berg
2007-08-03 10:20 ` Joerg Mayer
2007-08-03 10:27 ` Andy Green
2007-08-03 10:32 ` Johannes Berg
2007-08-03 10:35 ` Andy Green
2007-08-03 10:41 ` Johannes Berg
2007-08-03 10:49 ` Andy Green
2007-08-06 6:44 ` Johannes Berg
2007-08-06 8:25 ` Andy Green
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