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Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 20:04:00 +0200
From: "Nick Kossifidis" <mickflemm@gmail.com>
To: "Francesco Gringoli" <francesco.gringoli@ing.unibs.it>
Subject: Re: ath5k: filter patch
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
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2007/11/29, Francesco Gringoli <francesco.gringoli@ing.unibs.it>:
> Hello everybody,
>
> I discovered that playing with iface promiscuity to capture traffic
> (including control, promisc and all other stuff) is not working on
> ath5k as rx_filters are never refreshed. To make things going I added
> a single ath5k_hw_set_rx_filters(ah,rfilt) at the end of
> ath5k_configure_filter(). I attach the simple patch. Now tcpdump
> captures everything in monitor mode when iface is set to promisc.
>
> By the way, has someone tried to put ath5k into using RTS/CTS procedure?
>
> Regards,
> FG
>
>
>
> --- wireless-2.6.old/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c
> 2007-11-29 16:20:27.000000000 +0100
> +++ wireless-2.6/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c       2007-11-29
> 16:21:24.000000000 +0100
> @@ -2813,6 +2813,9 @@
>                  rfilt |= AR5K_RX_FILTER_BEACON;
>          }
> +        /* Set filters */
> +        ath5k_hw_set_rx_filter(ah,rfilt);
> +
>          /* Set multicast bits */
>          ath5k_hw_set_mcast_filter(ah, mfilt[0], mfilt[1]);
>          /* Set the cached hw filter flags, this will alter actually
>
>

Thanx a lot for your patch !, plz check out
http://www.linuxwireless.org/en/developers/SubmittingPatches
on how to submit your patch on the list and resubmit so it can be included  ;-)

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Nick