-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Somebody in the thread at some point said: | Andy Green wrote: | [snip] |> | c) Does the driver support monitor mode with radiotap header or is there |> | another way to get the signal strength of other wlan adhoc stations in |> | range ? |> |> AIUI there is no monitor mode support, and that's down to the closed |> firmware. There has been no update of AR6001 firmware since before |> production and Atheros keep the firmware update utility private, so I |> would not hold your breath. |> | | I was digging into this because it irked me [1], and saw a glimmer or | two of hope. First, I found this:
... | And also, would it be worth our while to fire this off to Luis and Pavel | at Atheros? They're the lead guys on ath9k, they might be able to gin | up some help, or at meast point us in the right direction. AUI the official situation from Atheros is there isn't any Monitor Mode in the firmware, I know other folks in OM are talking to Atheros and maybe they can make a nice surprise. But personally, I expect what we got is what we got on GTA02 and if you want monitor mode the "solution" is stick zd1211-based USB stick in there. Super happy to be proved wrong though! - -Andy -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkjSSwIACgkQOjLpvpq7dMrk8gCgj858DStsECzKYkq2Q5Jgr7pt 1aAAoIVfEfZqQON3qVGgHctf8UJiSMa1 =OMUZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
