Return-path: Received: from mail-wi0-f172.google.com ([209.85.212.172]:46110 "EHLO mail-wi0-f172.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754472Ab2DPTul (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Apr 2012 15:50:41 -0400 Received: by wibhj6 with SMTP id hj6so9021968wib.1 for ; Mon, 16 Apr 2012 12:50:40 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4F469ADF.5040806@broadcom.com> References: <4F356004.9090409@broadcom.com> <4F469ADF.5040806@broadcom.com> From: Kiss Robert Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 21:50:20 +0200 Message-ID: (sfid-20120416_215044_896813_D33EC3D3) Subject: Re: Broadcom brcm80211 monitor mode To: Franky Lin Cc: "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi, Is there any hope in the near future for a brcm80211 firmware which supports monitor mode? If I got it right, it is either Broadcom who could release such a firmware or someone else who has infinite free time to reverse engineer the blob firmware, right? Is there any initiative for that? Maybe some progress on it? I ask it because I'd like to contribute to such a project if it already exists. Cheers, Robert On 23 February 2012 21:00, Franky Lin wrote: > 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 >