Re: [PATCH] orinoco rfmon

[Eric Gaumer]

David Gibson wrote:
> This looks like the ancient version of the monitor patch - which
> includes importing a lot of needless junk from the linux-wlan-ng
> tree.  A cleaned up version of monitor has been merged in the orinoco
> CVS tree for ages now, but unfortunately that's long overdue for a
> merge with mainline.  I'm trying to get that merge done - I just don't
> have much time or energy for the orinoco driver these days.  One stack
> of patches which gets part of the way went to Jeff Garzik last week.
> We'll see how we go.
>
> In the meantime go to http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/orinoco for
> access to the driver CVS.  You probably want to get the "for_linus"
> branch of CVS if you're planning to work with 2.6.

Thanks David, the CVS code works great with the small excpetion of the following change to
get it to build.

diff -Nru orinoco-cvs/orinoco_cs.c orinoco-build/orinoco_cs.c
--- orinoco-cvs/orinoco_cs.c    2005-02-26 22:21:55.000000000 -0800
+++ orinoco-build/orinoco_cs.c  2005-02-27 15:00:07.698368136 -0800
@@ -428,7 +428,7 @@
        SET_MODULE_OWNER(dev);
        card->node.major = card->node.minor = 0;

-       SET_NETDEV_DEV(dev, &handle_to_dev(handle));
+       dev->name[0] = '\0';
        /* Tell the stack we exist */
        if (register_netdev(dev) != 0) {
                printk(KERN_ERR PFX "register_netdev() failed\n");


What's the deal with the broken firmware for monitor mode?

 * v0.15rc1 -> v0.15rc2 - 28 Jul 2004 - Pavel Roskin & David Gibson
 *      o orinoco_pci saves PCI registers on suspend (Simon Huggins).
 *      o Monitor mode disabled on Agere 8.xx firmware - it's broken.

I have 8.4 but things seem fine (used this card in monitor mode for over a year without
problems).

I just disabled the check for broken firmware and things seem fine (better than the original
patch I posted). The iwlist command now works. Could the buggy firmware be generalized a bit
too much? Perhaps only certain versions > 8 are buggy?


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