[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] N 770 RFmon in Wifi Chipset?

[From: Koen Kooi]

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Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote:
> Salut,
> 
> I'm the developer of the popular Wellenreiter II[1] passive wireless
> scanner for the Opie environment. I'm considering to make this
> application run on the Nokia 770. Since Wellenreiter II is a passive
> scanner, there is the need of the so called RFMON mode - basically a
> mode of operation in which IEEE 802.11 management packages are delivered
> to userland.
> 
> Most open source drivers (hostap, orinoco, madwifi, spectrum, wlan-ng,
> cisco) implement such a mode. How is the chipset+driver in the Nokia 770
> behaving in that aspect?

According to
http://maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-developers/2005-June/000417.html it
won't behave.
Does this mean your going to port WR2 to GTK? ;)

regards,

Koen

> 
> [1] http://www.vanille.de/projects/wellenreiter.html

PS: QT/E must die!!

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