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

[From: Michael 'Mickey' Lauer]

Am Donnerstag, den 23.06.2005, 22:46 +0200 schrieb Koen Kooi:
> > 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 

Urhgs... makes me look like someone who doesn't read archives before
posting. I normally do - sorry about that duplication.

> it won't behave.
> Does this mean your going to port WR2 to GTK? ;)

Not without monitoring mode :)

Thanks Koen.

> > [1] http://www.vanille.de/projects/wellenreiter.html
> 
> PS: QT/E must die!!

I think it will :)) 

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Regards,

Mickey.
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