[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] wlan monitor mode

[From: Dirk Kuijsten]

Does someone from Nokia know when we the cx3110x source code is released?

This would be nice to have.

Thanks,

Dirk.

On Do, 16 februari, 2006 10:15, Bernhard Baase wrote:
> Hi,
> I've also tested the aireplay suite. The problem, why the tools are not
> really running, is that the driver must be patched to be able to send
> packets in monitor mode. For i386 environments most common driver projects
> like mad-wifi or prism54.org had integrated that feature to their drivers.
> I
> had read into it but had to find out that my C and wifi harware knowledge
> isn't enough at the moment for implementing this. Also I havn't found your
> module sources for the cx3110x in the repository.
>
> Is it closed source?? Where to find it?
>
> The prism54 team for example had to reverse enginere the protocol between
> UMAC(the binary) and LMAC(embedded wifi ARM CPU) by investigating the chip
> behaviour.  As I expect that nokia has bought some thousand chips at
> conexant I think you will have the firmware and protocol specification and
> will be perhaps able to implement it quite easy. It would be a great
> feature
> if  you can do this. I will try to find the driver patches from the
> prism54
> project. Perhaps it isn't that magic to implement it.
>
> Greets
>  Bernhard
>
> On 2/15/06, Samuel Ortiz <samuel.ortiz at nokia.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, ext Collin R. Mulliner wrote:
>>
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I have dsniff and friends working ok, I don't know why airodump
>> doesn't
>> > work since it should also only require pcap.
>> >
>> > Also my device seems to suck up battery quite fast during monitor mode
>> In monitor mode, the WLAN chipset is running at full power, of course.
>> So,
>> yes, your battery will last about 3 hours if you keep on sniffing 802.11
>> packets.
>>
>>
>> > Why doesn't iwconfig "work" noramlly while the device is in monitor
>> > mode?
>> Because my code sucks.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Samuel.
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