Return-path: Received: from mail-fx0-f46.google.com ([209.85.161.46]:65527 "EHLO mail-fx0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754352Ab0EQLVu convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 May 2010 07:21:50 -0400 Received: by fxm6 with SMTP id 6so3689509fxm.19 for ; Mon, 17 May 2010 04:21:49 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=E1bor_Stefanik?= Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 13:21:29 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: ath5k past 2.6.30 breaks monitor mode (and thus the aircrack suite) To: Weedy Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 2010/5/17 Weedy : > 2010/5/16 G?bor Stefanik : >> On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 10:41 PM, Weedy wrote: >>> Running airodump on ubuntus 2.6.30 kernel works as expected. The >>> 2.6.32 kernel shipped in lucid never sees data packets. >>> >>> I have narrowed it down to channel hopping. modprobing the driver and >>> starting mon0 on a fixed channel works as expected, but allowing >>> airodump to channel hop breaks the interface until the driver is >>> reset. >>> >>> I wrote a script to download and build compat wireless starting from >>> 2009-01-01 (granted everything fails until half way through october), >>> but every version that is successfully installed also show the same >>> bug. >>> >>> Further instructions welcome. >> >> Try checking out linux-2.6, and doing a bisect between 2.6.30 and 2.6.32. > > Do I have to check out the entire kernel? even with scripting my > netbook would take forever to do this. > Yes, you need to check out the entire repo - but with git, you do not need to re-download the whole tree everytime you check out a new revision; it is a distributed system. git is not CVS. :-) -- Vista: [V]iruses, [I]ntruders, [S]pyware, [T]rojans and [A]dware. :-)