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From: "Arend van Spriel" <arend@broadcom.com>
To: "Daniel Smith" <viscous.liquid@gmail.com>
Cc: "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Roland Vossen" <rvossen@broadcom.com>,
	"Franky (Zhenhui) Lin" <frankyl@broadcom.com>
Subject: Re: Broadcom brcm80211 monitor mode
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 22:03:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F2C4BB2.1070207@broadcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADGLRPncrRHRFUXHfUWM31d0THzuJx_2a=+aifcFR39jT7WpLA@mail.gmail.com>

On 02/03/2012 09:01 PM, Daniel Smith wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I see on the "To be done list" for both the fullmac and softmac chips
> is to add support for monitor mode. I was wondering how realistic is
> that task. If it is definitely going to occur, any idea what it will
> support, e.g. capturing management frames. Also any kind of hint what
> kind of time frame are you looking at? Any info would be greatly
> appreciated.
> 
> V/r,
> Daniel Smith
> 

For brcmsmac it has already been done just using the radiotap
functionality. I did not implement it, but I think this functionality is
provided by cfg80211. Not sure if that is sufficient info.

Gr. AvS


  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-03 21:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-03 20:01 Broadcom brcm80211 monitor mode Daniel Smith
2012-02-03 21:03 ` Arend van Spriel [this message]
2012-02-03 21:28   ` Daniel Smith
2012-02-03 21:38     ` Arend van Spriel
2012-02-03 21:57     ` Franky Lin
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-02-08 18:53 Kiss Robert
2012-02-10 18:20 ` Franky Lin
2012-02-23 16:00   ` Kiss Robert
2012-02-23 20:00     ` Franky Lin
2012-04-16 19:50       ` Kiss Robert
2012-04-16 21:08         ` Franky Lin
2012-07-26 23:12           ` Fred
2012-07-27 16:59             ` Franky Lin
2013-11-01 11:51               ` Peter Wu

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