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Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2008 15:57:21 +0300
From: "Tomas Winkler" <tomasw@gmail.com>
To: "Maxim Levitsky" <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [ipw3945-devel] [BUG] IWL3945: Led doesn't blink in monitor mode
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On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 12:43 PM, Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com> wrote:
> After fixing super annoying bug about garbage scan results,
> I noticed smaller bug:
>
> My wireless leds stop blinking if I enable monitor mode
> (Note that this time this doesn't happen if I enable promisc mode)
>
> Only module reload or recreation of wlan0 using iw  helps.
> This is due to the fact that once card is put in monitor mode it stays
> there always.
> (I will fix this bug when I have time)

Great.

>
> But leds should work even in monitor mode.
>
> Btw, do leds indicate RX activity or TX or both?
>
I've excluded RX for now. Since the filtering of the RX packets was
removed for favor or mac80211 filtering there was  a lot of false
blinking.

<snip>
static int iwl_get_blink_rate(struct iwl_priv *priv)
{
	int i;
	u64 current_tpt = priv->tx_stats[2].bytes;
	/* FIXME: + priv->rx_stats[2].bytes; */

</snip>

I'm pretty sure I won't have time to look at now

> PS:
>
> I will soon buy a standalone wireless card (pci express)
> Are iwlwifi based cards aviable?

Not sure if the cards are available stand alone.
Thanks
Tomas