Re: [Madwifi-users] System freezes on switching to monitor mode (more detail)

[xin l. <ls...@ho...>]

I solved this problem using a trick as follows:

What I need is monitor mode. I first create a sta mode, then without destroying it, I create a monitor mode. After that, I destroy both of them and then create a monitor mode again. Now the monitor mode works and doesn't freezes the machine. I am not sure the why this happens. 

After performing this, another minor bug pointed out in ticket 2042 happens. I solved it using the method described in the ticket. 

Hope this help others who want to play with madwifi using AR5008 chipset. 

Leo

> Subject: Re: [Madwifi-users] System freezes on switching to monitor mode (more	detail)
> From: pr...@gn...
> To: ls...@ho...
> CC: mad...@li...
> Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 17:56:43 -0400
> 
> On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 14:14 +0000, xin liu wrote:
> > After some test, the problem boils down to:
> > 
> > With HAL free madwifi version, for AR5008 chipset and linux kernel
> > 2.6.29.1, sta, ap modes work, monitor mode freezes system.
> 
> Please see http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt for
> instructions how to get information about failures in the kernel code.
> 
> > With HAL-non-free madwifi version, sta, monitor modes work, ap mode
> > doesn't work. 
> 
> Last time I tried, the AP mode worked, but I don't think anyone here is
> interested in touching that stuff.
> 
> > Also for AR5008 chipset, lspci shows the model AR5008, however in
> > dmesg it shows another two numbers AR5418 and 5416. 
> 
> That's OK.
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> Pavel Roskin

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