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On 02/23/2012 08:00 AM, Kiss Robert wrote:
> I have read somewhere that the Broadcom 4330 chipset on Samsung Galaxy
> S II cannot be put to monitor mode because of some hardware
> limitation. Is that true? Can someone confirm that?

Hi Robert,

It's a firmware limitation instead of hardware to be more precise. There 
is no firmware out there support monitor mode so the support can not be 
done by changing the host driver only.

Regards,
Franky