Re: Promiscuous mode

Hi,

On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, Wolfgang Kiess wrote:

> is the problem with the unsupported promiscuous mode of the at76c503
> firmware still present?
yes.

> Does anyone know about a firmware update with
> supported promiscuous mode / has anyone already tried to talk with atmel
> about that?

no / yes.

Acc. to several posts by Atmel employees it's Atmel's policy to
not include promiscous / monitor mode into the firmware (as it was their
policy to suddenly drop firmware support for Intersil radio chipsets).

See e.g. the archives of the atmel-wlan mailing list:
https://iprserv.jura.uni-leipzig.de/mailman/listinfo/atmel-wlan-usb
for details.

What exactly is promiscous mode for you: receiving all data packets
_after_ joining an (I)BSS _or_ receiving all packets on a certain channel,
which may belong to several (I)BSS?

/Jörg