Return-path: Received: from durandal.kismetwireless.net ([199.201.145.179]:38475 "EHLO durandal.nerv-un.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755636AbZCXUMY (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:12:24 -0400 Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:13:19 -0400 From: Mike Kershaw To: G?bor Stefanik Cc: "Info[at]Giuppi" , Hin-Tak Leung , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: rtl8187 bug report Message-ID: <20090324201319.GB14489@drd1813.lan> (sfid-20090324_211241_011044_3AEFBF84) Reply-To: Mike Kershaw References: <49C12DFA.80308@giuppi.com> <3ace41890903191439q1c375925md2e4227f79147399@mail.gmail.com> <49C2D537.6080406@giuppi.com> <3ace41890903191856s234118c9j2f4de15486cb37a9@mail.gmail.com> <49C39A83.5090004@giuppi.com> <69e28c910903201406o1e908214s4f0ab8cfa28392f1@mail.gmail.com> <20090322235416.GA32143@drd1813.cave.swamp> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="ADZbWkCsHQ7r3kzd" In-Reply-To: <20090322235416.GA32143@drd1813.cave.swamp> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --ADZbWkCsHQ7r3kzd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 07:54:16PM -0400, Mike Kershaw wrote: > On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 10:06:49PM +0100, G?bor Stefanik wrote: > > Could you please test if you can see packets originating from your > > network in Kismet or Wireshark? > > Also, did you use the included airmon-ng script to enable monitor > > mode, or did you just do "ifconfig wlan0 down; iwconfig wlan0 mode > > monitor, ifconfig wlan0 up"? (The two are significantly different, as > > airmon-ng uses iw/nl80211 to enable monitor mode on a separate > > interface - it would be good if you tried it both ways.) >=20 > I have actually seen similar problems with the 8187 (unknown if it is B > or L - the drivers think it's B, but the production run of the hardware > is NORMALLY L and may have recently changed; I have known-B generic card= s=20 > and maybe-B Alfa cards) I am NOT seeing this behavior under 2.6.29 so far (~1hr test) with channel hopping enabled (siocsiwchan, nothing fancy) at 3x a second, single rfmon vap set via siociwmode. -m --=20 Mike Kershaw/Dragorn GPG Fingerprint: 3546 89DF 3C9D ED80 3381 A661 D7B2 8822 738B BDB1 "Hostility towards Microsoft is not difficult to find on the Net, and it=20 blends two strains: resentful people who feel Microsoft is too powerful,=20 and disdainful people who think it's tacky. This is all strongly reminiscen= t=20 of the heyday of Communism and Socialism, when the bourgeoisie were hated= =20 =66rom both ends: by the proles, because they had all the money, and by the= =20 intelligentsia, because of their tendency to spend it on lawn ornaments." -- Neal Stephenson --ADZbWkCsHQ7r3kzd Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAknJPt8ACgkQ17KIInOLvbGGZwCfcT6S2CTeOQdYKjeNN68wnEaO SUEAn0veNqaMl5YSuUFsXhv/0sm2c60u =UtUF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ADZbWkCsHQ7r3kzd--