[ath9k-devel] trying to grasp the stack

2010-11-17 Thread Kyle Creyts
I have recently started work on a solution for wireless site survey and rogue access point detection/location; I know very little about how to directly interface with the wifi stack, or which parts I would need to interact with to achieve my various goals. Breaking it down, I am trying to figure

Re: [ath9k-devel] trying to grasp the stack

2010-11-17 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 17 November 2010 16:17, Kyle Creyts kyle.cre...@gmail.com wrote: Breaking it down, I am trying to figure out (among a large number of other things) how to (monitor for, and capture all ) vendor-specific IEs from frames, to allow my application to see past port virtualization, and identify

[ath9k-devel] ath9k randomly fails and stops working until I reboot

2010-11-17 Thread Quinn Strahl
Occasionally I lose my wireless connection to my router, and am unable to renew it - furthermore, attempts to bring down and back up the wireless interface via ifconfig results in a message: SIOCSIFFLAGS: Input/output error. If I try to bring it back up again, it comes up without error -

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k randomly fails and stops working until I reboot

2010-11-17 Thread Peter Stuge
Quinn Strahl wrote: I'm running Gentoo 2.6.36-r1, the card is an Atheros AR9285 in an Asus Eee PC 1000HE, running on the ath9k driver, built-in to the kernel. Using the latest drivers from compat-wireless made no discernible difference. Your experience is quite consistent with mine. ath9k

Re: [ath9k-devel] ath9k randomly fails and stops working until I reboot

2010-11-17 Thread Ben Greear
On 11/17/2010 08:17 AM, Quinn Strahl wrote: Occasionally I lose my wireless connection to my router, and am unable to renew it - furthermore, attempts to bring down and back up the wireless interface via ifconfig results in a message: SIOCSIFFLAGS: Input/output error. If I try to bring it

[ath9k-devel] Increasing the number of VAPs

2010-11-17 Thread Hector Akamine
Hello, It seems the maximum number of VAPs that can be created is limited by the ATH_BCBUF value in ath9k.h (currently set to 4). If I recompile the kernel changing this value to, say, 8, would I be able to create 8 VAPs? Thank you, Hector ___

Re: [ath9k-devel] TKIP MIC failure with netgear AP

2010-11-17 Thread Rajkumar Manoharan
Hi Wang Min, Please apply the attched patch and check ccmp in both legacy and 11n mode. patch -p1 qos_fix.patch -- Rajkumar diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_drv_txrx.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_drv_txrx.c index 5324ffd..7795867 100644 ---