Re: [zd1211-devs] PROBLEMS with monitor mode zd1211rw-mac80211 driver on a zd1211b usb stick HLP

2007-07-03 Thread Andy Green
Bruno Tavares wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bruno]# /sbin/iwconfig wlan0 mode Monitor Error for wireless request Set Mode (8B06) : SET failed on device wlan0 ; Device or resource busy. (it say it's busy but i'm connected to my wired connection!) You have to bring the interface down to

Re: [zd1211-devs] PROBLEMS with monitor mode zd1211rw-mac80211 driver on a zd121 HLP system froze

2007-07-03 Thread Andy Green
Bruno Tavares wrote: localhost kernel: Process NetworkManager (pid: 7796, ti=c2fe4000 task=e60ca270 task.ti=c2fe4000) service NetworkManager stop if you didn't have any joy with NetworkManager, stop it starting next boot with chkconfig NetworkManager off as well. Then retry. -Andy

Re: [zd1211-devs] Is it possible to use zd1211rw without udev???

2007-03-20 Thread Andy Green
Stephan Broß wrote: My problems began now on the embedded system. I can't use udev, because the systems design haven't got much memory. To be honest, I would not like to use it because of a lot reasons. So the crucial question for me is: Is it possible to use zd1211rw without udev? and

Re: [zd1211-devs] Is it possible to use zd1211rw without udev???

2007-03-20 Thread Andy Green
Stephan Broß wrote: How did you manage writing to sysfs. I tried to mount it with 'exec' option, but without success. Nowhere I can find a file named 'loading' or 'data', so I assume you create it? Nope. Just mount sysfs with the default mount options is all you need, assuming that you

Re: [zd1211-devs] Is it possible to use zd1211rw without udev???

2007-03-20 Thread Andy Green
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The loading and other fancy bits are dynamically created before the /sbin/hotplug script is called, and $DEVPATH is likewise dynamically created and defined in the environment before /sbin/hotplug is called. Aah, now it becomes plainer. First I have to install the

Re: [zd1211-devs] cannot find card

2007-02-20 Thread Andy Green
roger tunnicliffe wrote: Having managed to compile the module the foloowing took place: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ sudo /sbin/ifconfig loLink encap:Local Loopback No sign of the wireless network card ? ifconfig only shows you interfaces that have an address allocated by

Re: [zd1211-devs] Fwd: Re: SUSE SLED Compile error

2007-02-18 Thread Andy Green
roger tunnicliffe wrote: -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [zd1211-devs] SUSE SLED Compile error Date: Sunday 18 February 2007 13:28 From: roger tunnicliffe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Uli Kunitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ulrich I have booted to FEDORA and downloaded the

Re: [zd1211-devs] Cross Compilation of Driver to ARM

2007-02-14 Thread Andy Green
Kelvin Xu wrote: Dear all, Has there been any development on the driver, to allow cross-compilation to a ARM target? Is such cross-compilation possible? It certainly does crosscompile cleanly for ARM9, but the last version I took from CVS (28th Jan) didn't work with wpa_supplicant. Also

Re: [zd1211-devs] Unencrypted packet interface

2007-01-11 Thread Andy Green
Jon Smirl wrote: If you send UDP packets out on a multicast (or broadcast address) under 802.11 there is no MAC level ACK. UDP packets never have TCP level ACKs. So the question is, if an 802.11 device is associated to an AP, can you use the existing API to send out packets with a NULL

[zd1211-devs] Random register corruption bug in reset_mode()?

2007-01-11 Thread Andy Green
Hi folks - static int reset_mode(struct zd_mac *mac) { struct ieee80211_device *ieee = zd_mac_to_ieee80211(mac); struct zd_ioreq32 ioreqs[3] = { { CR_RX_FILTER, STA_RX_FILTER }, { CR_SNIFFER_ON, 0U }, }; if (ieee-iw_mode ==

Re: [zd1211-devs] Random register corruption bug in reset_mode()?

2007-01-11 Thread Andy Green
Jon Smirl wrote: There have been reports of the driver garbling frames with kismet. This may be the source. Probably not the source of that problem, since reset_mode isn't called very often. Bad data in Monitor mode sounds like frames that didn't pass their CRC check being passed through.

Re: [zd1211-devs] Random register corruption bug in reset_mode()?

2007-01-11 Thread Andy Green
Jon Smirl wrote: There have been reports of the driver garbling frames with kismet. This may be the source. Probably not the source of that problem, since reset_mode isn't called very often. Bad data in Monitor mode sounds like frames that didn't pass their CRC check being passed through.

[zd1211-devs] Unencrypted packet interface

2007-01-10 Thread Andy Green
Hi folks - I have written a patch (attached) which tries to provide a new usage mode for the zd1211rw. It works for me, but only in Monitor mode: the intention is that it should work in Managed mode too, associated or unassociated, and I welcome any pointers getting that going. What the

Re: [zd1211-devs] Unencrypted packet interface

2007-01-10 Thread Andy Green
Jon Smirl wrote: Hi Jon - The intended effect is that you can simultaneously run your encrypted network connection, keeping your normal traffic and internet connectivity private as usual, and yet also participate in a general, unencrypted (on the transport layer, anyway) broadcast-based