Return-path: Received: from mail-ie0-f174.google.com ([209.85.223.174]:40587 "EHLO mail-ie0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753252Ab2J3C6H (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Oct 2012 22:58:07 -0400 Received: by mail-ie0-f174.google.com with SMTP id k13so7618560iea.19 for ; Mon, 29 Oct 2012 19:58:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <508F423A.4010407@lwfinger.net> (sfid-20121030_035821_576790_022C6930) Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 21:58:02 -0500 From: Larry Finger MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cliff McDiarmid CC: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: RTL8188SU References: <201210291257.02249.chunkeey@googlemail.com> <201210292117.45399.chunkeey@googlemail.com> <508EFA5D.8090706@lwfinger.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 10/29/2012 05:59 PM, Cliff McDiarmid wrote: > Thanks Larry I'm confusing the issue here, by not getting the no's right. I was > asking about the rtl8192su driver which I understand works in monitor mode. I > assume this driver has been 'cleaned up' and become the r8712u. I was wondering > if I could use an earlier version of the rtl8192su driver with the RTL8188SU and > in doing so have the monitor mode. To my knowledge, none of the Realtek, non-mac80211 drivers work in monitor mode; however, if you think they do, then you can get such drivers from realtek.com. Please be aware that there is a definite possibility that such drivers will not build on recent kernels. In addition, they are unlikely to work on 64-bit kernels. I keep sending patches to them, but such changes seem to not be implemented. Larry