Re: [Madwifi-devel] #1109 -- ad hoc nets invisible to Centrino on Windows

[Derek S. <de...@in...>]

Hi,
 I am sorry, but I do not have a centrino box on windows to replicate the 
problem.

I wonder if you can do some investigations for me, and see if you can 
determine what is happening.

Find a box, and place it in monitor mode (not just run tcpdump).
We need to see the contents of the beacon packets, and see if there is a 
discrepancy. 

Examine the beacon packets from the madwifi box - they should contain an 
ESSID, a BSSID, a timestamp value, a beacon interval, 

Examine the beacon packets from the centrino box - they should contain an 
ESSID, a BSSID, a timestamp value, a beacon interval, 

look for differences between the two beacons. In what way does the madwifi 
beacon differ from the centrino beacon?

The beacon packets are crucial - these are the only packets that contain 
all the information about a network. Thus, any network scanner will read 
and dissect detected beacon packets. 

Ticket 1109 describes the use of 0.9.2, which is, well, very old.
Have you tried madwifi release 0.9.4? This is a good candidate for adhoc 
work.

Derek.


On Thu, 10 Apr 2008, Dennis Edwards wrote:

> Hello. I am curious if anyone has looked at ticket #1109 lately, and if so, 
> what information you might have that is not in the ticket. This is important 
> to my group and I'd be happy for any help resolving this apparent ad hoc 
> compatibility issue.
> 
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