Bug#347468: ipw2200 in linux-image-2.6.15-1-686 lacks monitor mode
tags 347468 upstream
severity 347468 wishlist
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On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, delicious nougat wrote:
>
> I upgraded to linux-image-2.6.15-1-686 and found that kismet no longer
> worked. Neither could I set the card into monitor mode via iwconfig or
> airmon. It's an ipw2915, which has worked more or less with various
> ipw2200 drivers until today.
>
> A quick check revealed that the ipw2200 driver had not been compiled
> with Monitor mode support...it looks like this is set as an option in
> the config file. No idea why it didn't result in a module with monitor
> mode support ...but I was able to get monitor mode by installing the
> ipw2200-source package, editing ipw2200.c and putting
> #define CONFIG_IPW2200_MONITOR
> at the top and using module-assistant to make a new module. Which is
> probably not the brightest thing in the world but it works again.
>
> Debian unstable.
it's not enabled upstream due to firmware troubles:
ipw2200: Firmware error detected. Restarting.
ipw2200: Sysfs 'error' log already exists.
-> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.ipw2100.devel/6886
we enable it as soon as this is sorted and the Kconfig entry is there.
--
maks
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