Return-path: Received: from mail-gx0-f217.google.com ([209.85.217.217]:49044 "EHLO mail-gx0-f217.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751302Ab0EQGjM convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 May 2010 02:39:12 -0400 Received: by gxk9 with SMTP id 9so3023507gxk.8 for ; Sun, 16 May 2010 23:39:11 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: From: Weedy Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 02:38:51 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: ath5k past 2.6.30 breaks monitor mode (and thus the aircrack suite) To: =?UTF-8?Q?G=C3=A1bor_Stefanik?= Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 2010/5/16 Gábor 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.