orinoco_cs, RF monitor patch [Was Re: Orinoco and 5Ghz cards?]

snax snax at shmoo.com
Sun Aug 11 17:37:14 EST 2002


What firmware revision are you using?

Snax

Patrick Cole wrote:
> 
> Anyhow, I'm having trouble getting the RF monitor patch working
> properly. One thing that initially seemed to be causing problems was
> that when in monitor mode the driver would still try and transmit
> packets which seemed to cause the whole thing to go beserk. I fixed that
> by returning 1 from the orinoco_xmit function if we were in monitor
> mode, not sure if that is the best thing to do as it seemed as if
> returning 1 just meant the kernel kept trying to transmit the packet
> instead of dropping it. Perhaps returning 0 is the best thing to do, as
> that will fool the kernel into thinking the packet was actually transmitted?
> 




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