From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from hs-out-0708.google.com ([64.233.178.243]:39614 "EHLO hs-out-0708.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750940AbYGIQZ6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jul 2008 12:25:58 -0400 Received: by hs-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id 4so675386hsl.5 for ; Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:25:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4874E68F.7090106@gmail.com> (sfid-20080709_182602_610356_C23620B6) Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:25:51 +0300 From: Maxim Levitsky MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Zhu Yi CC: ipw3945-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Stefanik_G=E1bo?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?r?= Subject: Re: [BUG] Two bugs in monitor mode, iwl3945 References: <485F687C.1050407@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <485F687C.1050407@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Maxim Levitsky wrote: > I noticed two bugs: >=20 > 1) Monitor mode hangs the system randomly, and what is interesting th= at=20 > this > bug disappears if I patch the driver with packet injection patch from= =20 > G=E1bor Stefanik. > I noticed this bug, after I removed his patch to see if it caused som= e=20 > problems. > Always reproducible, usually hangs just after airodump launch. >=20 > 2) If I enable monitor mode regardless of injection patch, the scanni= ng=20 > results got garbaged, > iwlist scan reports > 100 quality on most APs, or 0% quality on my=20 > router, shows extremely low and hi power levels, like > -127dBm or 160 dBm, and those levels change rapidly. > This why I removed the injection patch, I suspected it, but this bug=20 > appears to be not related to it. I noticed that exactly same bug happens if I enable promisc mode on the= =20 wlan0. Does this give any additional clue why this bug happens? Best regards, Maxim levitsky -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireles= s" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html