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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Marco <marco@tampabay.rr.com>, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: iwlwifi: 8265: unexpected LLC packets TX'ed in monitor mode
Date: Thu, 28 May 2020 16:53:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b2cd827da3d73a9e83a9fc54f79485caee17377e.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C32FKI01HMGA.U0TCA9AIO8BX@b1>

On Thu, 2020-05-28 at 10:26 -0400, Marco wrote:
> 
> > I think these are somehow related to calibrations in the device.
> 
> Are you perhaps implying that I can alter calibration settings to fix
> this problem?  If you have any pointers to this it would be
> appreciative.

No, I don't know if this is possible. I'm just telling you what I think
the reason for them is.

> Regardless though, I would still expect the default behavior to not
> emit packets when in monitor mode, unless the user directs it to;
> similar to what I've seen from other wifi chipsets.

I have no idea precisely why (for what kind of calibration) these are
transmitted and if it could be changed, I guess you could try contacting
Intel's customer support?

johannes


      reply	other threads:[~2020-05-28 14:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-13 17:48 iwlwifi: 8265: unexpected LLC packets TX'ed in monitor mode Marco Fonseca
2020-05-25  9:23 ` Johannes Berg
2020-05-28 14:26   ` Marco
2020-05-28 14:53     ` Johannes Berg [this message]

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