Re: Brcmsmac drivers

Re: Brcmsmac drivers

[Arend van Spriel]

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

Re: Brcmsmac drivers

[Arend van Spriel]

On 01/18/2012 12:40 PM, Dan wrote:
> Do you mean that wireless-testing will have monitor mode that will allow monitoring data packets from APs. Which I have mentioned isn't working within the latest stable compat-wireless. 
> 
> Thanks
> Dan
> 

Your v3.2(?) kernel should have bcma enabled. I also made some changes
to bcma on which brcmsmac depends in v3.3. I don't think compat-wireless
does everything for you. So building a new kernel straight from
wireless-testing is probably your best bet.

Gr. AvS