Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Extending iwinfo to set interface to monitor mode

2019-06-11 Thread Vincent Wiemann
Great idea, but that needs to happen upstream. As far as I know iwinfo is only used for the hardware gains and ubus stuff in OpenWrt. It would be nice if it could be replaced by iw completely. Regards, Vincent Wiemann On 11.06.19 18:29, Nick wrote: > iw has no c library. So if you want to do

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Extending iwinfo to set interface to monitor mode

2019-06-11 Thread Nick
iw has no c library. So if you want to do automatically switching or stuff like this, I directly would have to use nl80211. Would be nice to split iw into a libiw and cmd iw or something like this. Bests, Nick On 21.05.19 19:34, John Crispin wrote: > > On 21/05/2019 17:44, Nick wrote: >> If I

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Extending iwinfo to set interface to monitor mode

2019-05-21 Thread John Crispin
On 21/05/2019 17:44, Nick wrote: If I extend iwinfo to allow setting interfaces into monitor mode, will it be excepted? Or is iwinfo just for getting information for an interface? I use libiwinfo for abstraction for my own daemons. Bests, Nick iwinfo is designed for introspection of the

[OpenWrt-Devel] Extending iwinfo to set interface to monitor mode

2019-05-21 Thread Nick
If I extend iwinfo to allow setting interfaces into monitor mode, will it be excepted? Or is iwinfo just for getting information for an interface? I use libiwinfo for abstraction for my own daemons. Bests, Nick ___ openwrt-devel mailing list