Fw: bsd-airtools and 5.1-REL

Hello All!

I found this email today on the freebsd-mobile mailing list.  Has anyone
heard from h1kari on this?  h1kari, are you still alive?  :-)

I'm exicted that Sam Leffler is working on FreeBSD's wi driver.  I don't
know how many of you know it, but FreeBSD's, and I think one or both of the
other *BSD's wi drivers don't work correctly in rfmon mode (ie, when you run
prism2ctl wi0 -m).  You can see proof of this if you run ethereal or
tcpdump.  In rfmon, ethereal will just show almost all [malformed packet]
entries, and tcpdump will show a bunch of nonsense usually including
"Broadcast sap".  Sam, and a few others, are working on this.  I'm looking
forward to being able to use the same wireless tools that linux, and even
OSX, users have been using for quite some time now.

Just a reminder, there is a BAT channel on IRC.  It's #bsd-airtools on
IRC.FREENODE.NET.  Idle there, as news reports come though sporadically
(h1kari, could you idle there?  :-)  ).  There's also info on there about
testing h1kari's reinj code, which is also an exciting concept in the
wireless world!

Aaron


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jon Disnard" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Cc: "Sam Leffler" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 9:08 PM
Subject: Re: bsd-airtools and 5.1-REL


> Sam Leffler wrote:
> >> I just aquired a Netgear MA 401 (PRISM 2.5). As noted in this thread
> >> bsd-airtools work no longer with 5.1-R (what I have). This was some
> >> weeks ago. How is the current status? Are there any working patches for
> >> dstumbler?
> >
> >
> > The monitor mode changes went in the tree a while ago.  I don't believe
> > they were in 5.1-R so you'd need to look in -current.
> >
> Not to mention that the interface bsd-airtools is expecting has changed.
> It seems that bsd-airtools needs attention but I hear the author no
> longer maintains it. We cannot be expected to change every app that used
> an old interface. There were some patches floating around a few weeks
> back that supposedly got the lucent (hermes chips) working, but prism
> support was not fixed (in my testing at the time). Since then I'm sure
> things have changed. ;)
>
> -Jon
>
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