From: Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net>
To: Andy Green <andy@warmcat.com>
Subject: Re: Packetspammer and iwlwifi fragility
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 09:10:15 -0500
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
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On Wednesday 07 March 2007 08:05, Andy Green wrote:
> Also notice that packets cannot be sent by packetspammer until the
> interface is brought up, which I guess is reasonable enough, but also I
> found not until the interface was associated with a WPA network, which
> is a problem if the plan is to use the injection action to do the work
> of association in userspace.
>
There is a hostap/prism2 sub-ioctl to enable userspace mlme mode, which sho=
uld=20
fix that issue. Look around in ieee80211_ioctl.c for=20
PRISM2_IOCTL_PRISM2_PARAM, ieee80211_ioctl_prism2_param, and=20
PRISM2_PARAM_USER_SPACE_MLME for hints. These sub-ioctls are, of course,=20
quite evil and need to be replaced, but it's a little better than hacking=20
mac80211 to start with user_space_mlme enabled by default.

=2DMichael Wu

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