On Feb 22, 2009, at 2:42 PM, Gábor Stefanik wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Francesco Gringoli
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Feb 17, 2009, at 11:54 PM, Michael Buesch wrote:
>>
>>> Please read the code. There are lots of sanity checks in b43 and
>>> mac80211
>>> that make it impossible to receive completely corrupted frames.
>> I reconsidered this message because I too did some tests in capturing
>> frames with proprietary firmware. As Bo said, we can capture  
>> corrupted
>> frames with R351 but we can't with R410. The reason is that this
>> firmware seems to not even check whether or not bit
>> B43_MACCTL_KEEP_BAD is set so I believe no kernel patch could correct
>> this problem, because it is on the firmware side.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> -FG
>>
>
> Does OpenFWWF or Michael's openfw honor KEEP_BAD?
openfwwf does honor the bit.

Cheers,
-FG

>
>
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