Re: 2.6.29-rc8: Reported regressions from 2.6.28

From: Jeff Chua
Date: Tue Mar 17 2009 - 13:21:27 EST


On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Johannes Berg
<johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> If you don't have a second device to monitor, you can also create a
> monitor interface as such:
>        iw dev wlan0 interface add moni0 type monitor flags none
>
> and run tcpdump on the resulting 'moni0' interface while you try to
> associate etc. Write the packets to files and send them to me.
>
> Due to this implicit scan modification in the driver that I removed,
> however, I won't see scans in that file, so it won't be all that useful,
> a capture made on a second device would be much better.

Ok, I'll try this out later. Got good news to share. I've applied
John's patches and just need to modified net/mac80211/wext.c slightly
since len and ssid are not defined, and function arguments are
different. I'm checking my tree again ... my seems different from his.

Thanks,
Jeff.
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