Hi, Paul Mullen writes:
> What's the current status of the monitor-mode patches for the > Airport (older 802.11b-only cards) kernel module? Six months ago I > was able to apply a patch posted in July '03 by Jens Schmalzing to > the 2.4.23-benh tree, but with partial success. That very patch is contained in the kernel-patch-powerpc packages since version 2.6. > The resulting kernel compiled fine and monitor mode worked, but my > system would only run for a brief period of time before > 'ksoftirqd_CPU0' ran out of control, consuming 99% of processor > time. How many packets did you capture during that time? I've never seen the behaviour you describe, and I use monitor mode quite a lot. Regards, Jens. -- J'qbpbe, le m'en fquz pe j'qbpbe! Le veux aimeb et mqubib panz je pézqbpbe je djuz tqtaj!