[Airo-linux-general] RE: Aironet 340 and Redhat 7.3 woes

[Ben C. <BCr...@An...>]

Howdy All!
I was able to compile the modified airtraf (from Peter Lee) driver and it
all works.  Is there going to be a fix for the CVS to allow it to compile
against the newer kernels?  I'm interested in the wifi0 interface.  Thanks!

-Ben

>  -----Original Message-----
> From: 	Ben Cranston  
> Sent:	Thursday, June 27, 2002 3:56 PM
> To:	'air...@li...'
> Subject:	Aironet 340 and Redhat 7.3 woes
> 
> Hello All!
> 
> I'm working with the following:
> Stock Redhat 7.3 on HP omnibook laptop (Kernel 2.4.18-3)
> airo.c driver version 1.5.2 2001/01/22 
> aironet 340 card 
> aironet firmware 4.25.30 
> 
> I cannot get the card to go into promisc mode.  I've tried the echo 'Mode:
> r' command to the Config file, but it still will not go into rfmon mode.
> The best I can get is after I've assoicated to an AP I can then see
> broadcast and my traffic.  Not good ehough if you're trying to audit
> someone. anyway.  
> 
> At this point I believe that the stock driver just won't go into promisc
> mode.  So I went the cvs path and grabbed the latest airo-linux code from
> sourceforge.  I've copied over the airo.c and airo_cs.c code into the
> kernel tree and did the makes.  I get all the way to make bzImage and then
> die in a flurry of "invalid type argument of '->'" errors near line 7635.
> ugh.. So I cannot compile the latest version.  Does anyone have any
> pointers on how to get this going, or how to get the 1.5.2 version to
> actually bump into promisc mode?  I'm really at a loss. Thanks in advance!
> 
> -Ben