CVS orinoco.c 0.15rc1: Monitor mode broken for Agere 8.xx firmware
Hi all
Reading the wireless thread from a few days ago I tried to find out
what's possible for an orinoco wireless card on a Titanium IV for
monitor mode. Short version: It doesn't look good.
As to the wireless card I have:
Actually it seems to be impossible to find out exactly which one I
have on this machine. Even the logs here are relatively quiet on that
save telling this [ Excerpt]:
kernel: airport: Airport at physical address 80030000
kernel: divert: allocating divert_blk for eth2
kernel: eth2: Station identity 001f:0001:0008:0046
kernel: eth2: Looks like a Lucent/Agere firmware version 8
.70
kernel: eth2: Ad-hoc demo mode supported
kernel: eth2: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported
kernel: eth2: WEP supported, 104-bit key
kernel: eth2: MAC address 00:30:65:28:E4:78
kernel: eth2: Station name "HERMES I"
kernel: eth2: ready
kernel: airport: card registered for interface eth2
All I know is that it's an Apple card. And no: I will not open this
machine now ... :)
So according to kern.log I have installed
Lucent/Agere firmware version 8.70
But the CVS version 0.15 for orinoco.c clearly says I'll be out of luck
with it [Excerpt]:
* v0.15rc1 -> v0.15rc2 - 28 Jul 2004 - Pavel Roskin & David Gibson
* [ ........ ]
* o Monitor mode disabled on Agere 8.xx firmware - it's broken.
Full version:
<http://savannah.nongnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/*checkout*/orinoco/orinoco/orinoco.c?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/plain>
The, as it seems, patch for the driver above also says it'd only help
if the "0.15 drivers work with your firmware":
<http://www.kismetwireless.net/download.shtml>
Scroll down to:
"Orinoco Driver Patches for CVS/0.15RC2"
So all one probably could try is patching the current 0.13
orinoco.*/hermes.* sources with the patch from
<http://www.kismetwireless.net/download.shtml>
"Orinoco Driver Patches for 2.6.9 & 2.6.10 & 2.6.8.1-mdk"
HTH
Best Regards
Wolfgang
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