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Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 16:45:46 -0800
From: Eric Gaumer <gaumerel@ecs.fullerton.edu>
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To: David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] orinoco rfmon
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David Gibson wrote:
>
> This looks like the ancient version of the monitor patch - which
> includes importing a lot of needless junk from the linux-wlan-ng
> tree.  A cleaned up version of monitor has been merged in the orinoco
> CVS tree for ages now, but unfortunately that's long overdue for a
> merge with mainline.  I'm trying to get that merge done - I just don't
> have much time or energy for the orinoco driver these days.  One stack
> of patches which gets part of the way went to Jeff Garzik last week.
> We'll see how we go.
>
> In the meantime go to http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/orinoco for
> access to the driver CVS.  You probably want to get the "for_linus"
> branch of CVS if you're planning to work with 2.6.
>

Thanks David, the CVS code works great with the small excpetion of the following change to
get it to build.

diff -Nru orinoco-cvs/orinoco_cs.c orinoco-build/orinoco_cs.c
--- orinoco-cvs/orinoco_cs.c    2005-02-26 22:21:55.000000000 -0800
+++ orinoco-build/orinoco_cs.c  2005-02-27 15:00:07.698368136 -0800
@@ -428,7 +428,7 @@
         SET_MODULE_OWNER(dev);
         card->node.major = card->node.minor = 0;

-       SET_NETDEV_DEV(dev, &handle_to_dev(handle));
+       dev->name[0] = '\0';
         /* Tell the stack we exist */
         if (register_netdev(dev) != 0) {
                 printk(KERN_ERR PFX "register_netdev() failed\n");


What's the deal with the broken firmware for monitor mode?

  * v0.15rc1 -> v0.15rc2 - 28 Jul 2004 - Pavel Roskin & David Gibson
  *      o orinoco_pci saves PCI registers on suspend (Simon Huggins).
  *      o Monitor mode disabled on Agere 8.xx firmware - it's broken.

I have 8.4 but things seem fine (used this card in monitor mode for over a year without
problems).

I just disabled the check for broken firmware and things seem fine (better than the original
patch I posted). The iwlist command now works. Could the buggy firmware be generalized a bit
too much? Perhaps only certain versions > 8 are buggy?


--
"Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school."
	- Albert Einstein

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