Re: ath5k past 2.6.30 breaks monitor mode (and thus the aircrack suite)

[Weedy <weedy2887@gmail.com>]

2010/5/26 Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>:
> 2010/5/25 Gábor Stefanik <netrolller.3d@gmail.com>:
>> On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com> wrote:
>>> 2010/5/25 Weedy <weedy2887@gmail.com>:
>>>> 2010/5/24 Gábor Stefanik <netrolller.3d@gmail.com>:
>>>>> 2010/5/25 Weedy <weedy2887@gmail.com>:
>>>>>> 2010/5/23 Gábor Stefanik <netrolller.3d@gmail.com>:
>>>>>>> In the meantime, one thing to test: Add a printk of sc->opmode.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> May 24 22:04:20 tiny-h4x kernel: [41147.243149] sc->opmode: 02 (over9000 times)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So i'm guessing I did it wrong (I don't know C).
>>>>>>        printk(KERN_NOTICE "sc->opmode: %02x\n", sc->opmode);
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> No, that is correct, and proves my theory (2 is NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION
>>>>> - it should be 6 for monitor mode).
>>>>>
>>>>> BTW, please use "Reply to all".
>>>>>
>>>> gmail got rid of the "Reply to all by default" option :<
>>>>
>>>> When you have a patch I will be waiting.
>>>
>>> Sorry, I missed this thread somehow.  Thanks for the detective
>>> work and apologies for my stupid goof.  Gábor, are you prepping
>>> a patch?  I can fix it if you like.
>>>
>>
>> If you can, please fix it - I know what the bug is, but have no solid
>> idea about a fix.
>
> Ok, it should be enough to look at the filter flags instead of
> the opmode -- I knew in the back of my mind that the monitor
> stuff was bogus (part of the reason I did the patch in the first
> place) but just got confused by what was already there I guess.
>
>

I await your patch with open arms.