#972: Monitor mode acts strange and doesnt work
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Reporter: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Owner:
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone:
Component: madwifi: driver | Version: trunk
Resolution: | Keywords: monitor
Patch_attached: 0 |
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Comment (by lucida):
Thanks for the reply. I've searched alot before posting here and cant
find any similar case. :( So this might be a rare problem and might not
reproducible on all systems.
Here is the complete command list/output after a system boot
{{{
fancyworld ~ # iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
wifi0 no wireless extensions.
ath0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"NetGear"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.422 GHz Access Point:
00:14:6C:90:4B:F8
Bit Rate:12 Mb/s Tx-Power:18 dBm Sensitivity=0/3
Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:FF03-58BF-F871-EC78-9C60-DB84-6F2F-EF6B
Security mode:restricted
Power Management:off
Link Quality=27/94 Signal level=-69 dBm Noise level=-96 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:63 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
fancyworld ~ # lspci | grep Atheros
01:06.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5005G
802.11abg NIC (rev 01)
fancyworld ~ # uptime
20:49:48 up 5 min, 3 users, load average: 0.73, 0.45, 0.21
fancyworld ~ # wlanconfig ath1 create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode monitor
ath1
fancyworld ~ # iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
wifi0 no wireless extensions.
ath0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"NetGear"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.422 GHz Access Point:
00:14:6C:90:4B:F8
Bit Rate:24 Mb/s Tx-Power:18 dBm Sensitivity=0/3
Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:FF03-58BF-F871-EC78-9C60-DB84-6F2F-EF6B
Security mode:restricted
Power Management:off
Link Quality=14/94 Signal level=-82 dBm Noise level=-96 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:67 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
ath138 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:""
Mode:Monitor Channel:0 Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:0 kb/s Tx-Power:18 dBm Sensitivity=0/3
Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=14/94 Signal level=-82 dBm Noise level=-96 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
fancyworld ~ # wlanconfig ath1 destroy
wlanconfig: ioctl: No such device
fancyworld ~ # wlanconfig ath138 destroy
fancyworld ~ # iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
wifi0 no wireless extensions.
ath0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"NetGear"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.422 GHz Access Point:
00:14:6C:90:4B:F8
Bit Rate:24 Mb/s Tx-Power:18 dBm Sensitivity=0/3
Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:FF03-58BF-F871-EC78-9C60-DB84-6F2F-EF6B
Security mode:restricted
Power Management:off
Link Quality=29/94 Signal level=-67 dBm Noise level=-96 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:75 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
fancyworld ~ # wlanconfig ath1 create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode monitor
ath1
fancyworld ~ # iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
wifi0 no wireless extensions.
ath0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"NetGear"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.422 GHz Access Point:
00:14:6C:90:4B:F8
Bit Rate:24 Mb/s Tx-Power:18 dBm Sensitivity=0/3
Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:FF03-58BF-F871-EC78-9C60-DB84-6F2F-EF6B
Security mode:restricted
Power Management:off
Link Quality=14/94 Signal level=-82 dBm Noise level=-96 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:75 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
ath139 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:""
Mode:Monitor Channel:0 Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:0 kb/s Tx-Power:18 dBm Sensitivity=0/3
Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=14/94 Signal level=-82 dBm Noise level=-96 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
fancyworld ~ # wlanconfig ath139 destroy
fancyworld ~ # iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
wifi0 no wireless extensions.
ath0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"NetGear"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.422 GHz Access Point:
00:14:6C:90:4B:F8
Bit Rate:18 Mb/s Tx-Power:18 dBm Sensitivity=0/3
Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:FF03-58BF-F871-EC78-9C60-DB84-6F2F-EF6B
Security mode:restricted
Power Management:off
Link Quality=29/94 Signal level=-67 dBm Noise level=-96 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:78 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
fancyworld ~ # dmesg | grep wifi
wifi0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
wifi0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps
24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
wifi0: H/W encryption support: WEP AES AES_CCM TKIP
wifi0: mac 7.8 phy 4.5 radio 5.6
wifi0: Use hw queue 1 for WME_AC_BE traffic
wifi0: Use hw queue 0 for WME_AC_BK traffic
wifi0: Use hw queue 2 for WME_AC_VI traffic
wifi0: Use hw queue 3 for WME_AC_VO traffic
wifi0: Use hw queue 8 for CAB traffic
wifi0: Use hw queue 9 for beacons
wifi0: Atheros 5212: mem=0xfdfe0000, irq=21
fancyworld ~ # lsmod
Module Size Used by
wlan_tkip 11456 2
fuse 38868 8
it87 18468 0
hwmon_vid 2752 1 it87
i2c_isa 3648 1 it87
wlan_scan_sta 12288 1
joydev 8128 0
nvidia 4707060 22
ath_pci 89376 0
ath_rate_sample 13440 1 ath_pci
wlan 191292 5
wlan_tkip,wlan_scan_sta,ath_pci,ath_rate_sample
snd_intel8x0 28508 1
ath_hal 189968 3 ath_pci,ath_rate_sample
snd_ac97_codec 91808 1 snd_intel8x0
i2c_nforce2 6272 0
snd_ac97_bus 2048 1 snd_ac97_codec
i2c_core 17472 4 it87,i2c_isa,nvidia,i2c_nforce2
usb_storage 79488 0
}}}
I'm using wpa_supplicant and the conf. file is
{{{
fancyworld ~ # cat /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=10
update_config=1
network={
ssid="NetGear"
psk="password"
proto=WPA
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
pairwise=TKIP
}
}}}
The kernel is compiled with SMP, big ram and preempt enabled, does this
matter? Below is the configuration file for reference.
hxxp://lucida.googlepages.com/2.6.18-r1.config.gz
Thanks!
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Ticket URL: <http://madwifi.org/ticket/972>
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