From: "Arend van Spriel" <arend@broadcom.com>
To: Dan <dannyai.mobile@gmail.com>
Cc: "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Brcmsmac drivers
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 08:33:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F1675DB.6070307@broadcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F18570BE-C886-4182-9D73-943283F3EB8D@gmail.com>
On 01/18/2012 01:08 AM, Dan wrote:
> Hi Arend,
>
> I have been trying to get my BCM4313 wireless adapter to work in monitor mode under Linux.
>
> No matter what I try. I can't seem to get aircrack to capture data from the APs. I can capture beacons but data is always zero within airodump-ng.
>
> Is this a missing feature in the driver? Or a bug in the driver?
If you are using a mainline v3.2 than it is a missing feature. It will
arrive in mainline in v3.3-rc1.
> I've also had trouble compiling the latest bleeding compat-wireless. When loading the brcmsmac module it complains of some unknown symbol bcma_sonething something.
>
> My next step is to try and compile the brcmsmac drivers straight from the Linux wireless testing GIT branch.
Yes. The current wireless-testing should contain monitor mode.
> Do you know the reason why monitor mode is unable to pick up data from APs??
> Maybe I need a different binary firmware or I need set some options in the driver.?
>
> Thanks,
> Dan
>
>
>
Gr. AvS
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2012-01-18 17:06 ` Brcmsmac drivers Arend van Spriel
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