[ath9k-devel] ath9k_htc - Netgear WNDA3200 - monitor mode

On 22 Mar 2016 06:13, Oleksij Rempel <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Am 21.03.2016 um 22:28 schrieb Roger James: 
> > Hi, 
> > 
> > I am trying to use a Netgear WNDA3200 usb dongle plugged into a box 
> > running Ubuntu 15.10 to monitor a WPA2_PSK encrypted network. This stick 
> > uses the AR7010+AR9280 chipsets.? For the particular problem I am 
> > investigating I need to as much of the traffic on the channel as I can. 
> > However I seem to miss almost all of the unicast traffic. I have come 
> > across this problem many times before on other wireless chipsets. I was 
> > hoping the Atheros would be different. I can see unicast 802.11 
> > management traffic but not protected unicast data/qos data frames. I 
> > have hacked the driver to give me? the current filter settings via 
> > debugfs and this is what I see. 
> > 
> > RXFILTER: 0xc03f UCAST MCAST BCAST CONTROL BEACON PROM PSPOLL 
> > MCAST_BCAST_ALL 
> > 
> > Which looks OK to me. I have also checked that all the packets seen by 
> > driver make it up to user level. 
> > 
> > Is this expected behaviour? 
> > 
> > Is this something to do with htc USB chipset? 
> > 
> > Is this something to do with a Netgear customisation? 
> > 
> > Has anyone else seen this kind of behaviour? 
> > 
> > Is there any way round it? 
> > 
> > Help!! This is driving me nuts. I have done so many tests with this and 
> > other adapters that I have lost the plot. 
> > 
> > I have a whole slew of tests and results available on request. But I 
> > won't clutter the list with them. 
>
> I would not guarantee that all filter settings are passed correctly. You 
> will need need to check it in the firmware. 
> https://github.com/qca/open-ath9k-htc-firmware 
>
>
> -- 
> Regards, 
> Oleksij 
>
 Hi Oleksij,

I have already done that and the code looks reasonable.

Roger