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Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 13:38:52 +0100
From: Andy Green <andy@warmcat.com>
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Somebody in the thread at some point said:

> Unfortunately there have been reports about devices with that USB ID
> that contains a rt2500usb chipset. There are a number of duplicate USB ID's
> between rt2500usb and rt73usb.
> Some manufacturers like to release new revisions of their wireless USB stick
> with different chipsets but with the same USB ID.

Oh well.

Are there known problems with the monitor mode?  It seems incomplete
even with one virtual interface, eg

13:37:00.549494 1.0 Mb/s 2437 MHz (0x0480) 192dB signal Probe Request ()
[1.0 2.0 5.5 11.0 6.0 9.0 12.0 18.0 Mbit]
13:37:00.550243 1.0 Mb/s 2437 MHz (0x0480) 192dB signal Probe Request ()
[1.0 2.0 5.5 11.0 6.0 9.0 12.0 18.0 Mbit]
13:37:00.590127 1.0 Mb/s 2437 MHz (0x0480) 216dB signal Beacon (froh)
[1.0* 2.0* 5.5* 11.0* Mbit] ESS CH: 6, PRIVACY
13:37:00.692568 1.0 Mb/s 2437 MHz (0x0480) 216dB signal Beacon (froh)
[1.0* 2.0* 5.5* 11.0* Mbit] ESS CH: 6, PRIVACY
13:37:00.897401 1.0 Mb/s 2437 MHz (0x0480) 216dB signal Beacon (froh)
[1.0* 2.0* 5.5* 11.0* Mbit] ESS CH: 6, PRIVACY
13:37:00.999773 1.0 Mb/s 2437 MHz (0x0480) 216dB signal Beacon (froh)
[1.0* 2.0* 5.5* 11.0* Mbit] ESS CH: 6, PRIVACY

and reports the rate as 1Mbps in all cases.  During this capture I have
another box doing

# while [ 1 ] ; do ls -l / ; done

over an ssh link which is being carried on another wireless device on
the same box associated on to channel 6...

-Andy