Return-path: Received: from mail-ea0-f175.google.com ([209.85.215.175]:49101 "EHLO mail-ea0-f175.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754223Ab3A3KJg (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jan 2013 05:09:36 -0500 Received: by mail-ea0-f175.google.com with SMTP id d1so587478eab.6 for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2013 02:09:35 -0800 (PST) From: Erwin Van de Velde To: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ath9k has buggy promiscuous mode Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 11:09:32 +0100 Message-ID: <15452550.1ttGSZchYI@sylvesterjr.pats.ua.ac.be> (sfid-20130130_110940_457353_EA131CBC) In-Reply-To: <1628374.rykW5SrKvm@sylvesterjr.pats.ua.ac.be> References: <2045349.v6KXL7FGSP@sylvesterjr.pats.ua.ac.be> <87txq1crst.fsf@purkki.adurom.net> <1628374.rykW5SrKvm@sylvesterjr.pats.ua.ac.be> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi, I have had a look at the source code of the driver and as far as I can see, the driver just never looks at the software configuration when enabling promiscuous mode and thus does not pass this information to the system, which explains why packets are never captured in promiscuous mode, even when the user configures the interface that way. After that I got a bit lost, so is there anyone who can help me fixing this bug? Best regards, Erwin