Re: Broadcom brcm80211 monitor mode

["Franky Lin" <frankyl@broadcom.com>]

On 02/03/2012 01:28 PM, Daniel Smith wrote:
> Hey Arend,
>
> On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Arend van Spriel<arend@broadcom.com>  wrote:
>> 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
>>
>
> Thanks for the quick response and that is excellent to hear! Is there
> any word on the fullmac side? I am actually interested in both as I
> will be dealing with both standard and mobile devices. Due to the
> popularity of your chips, it would be great if I could add Broadcom to
> my list of viable chips.
>
> Thanks!
> dps
>

Monitor mode is not supported in fullmac at the moment. I am afraid we 
don't have an ETA as well. But if for mobile devices you mean Android 
devices using Broadcom wifi chipset, current Android driver does have 
monitor mode support.

Franky