Re: sysfs vs. d80211 configuration

2006-08-14 Thread Mike Kershaw
all your interfaces before the fork you can keep the IPC very simple. -m -- Mike Kershaw/Dragorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Fingerprint: 3546 89DF 3C9D ED80 3381 A661 D7B2 8822 738B BDB1 pgpZ01U7AVtk5.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Remove Prism II support from Orinoco

2006-06-14 Thread Mike Kershaw
,tkip,aes) driver for their prism2 hardware. The hostap drivers are also much better behaved for rfmon than the orinoco drivers for prism2. -m -- Mike Kershaw/Dragorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Fingerprint: 3546 89DF 3C9D ED80 3381 A661 D7B2 8822 738B BDB1 Bus Error at 008BE426 while reading byte from

Re: Wireless tap device

2006-04-04 Thread Mike Kershaw
app which links the library to a tuntap interface for doing what you mentioned, however it obviously doesn't solve the differing endian issues. -m -- Mike Kershaw/Dragorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Fingerprint: 3546 89DF 3C9D ED80 3381 A661 D7B2 8822 738B BDB1 Remember the book store down the road

Re: State of the Union: Wireless / 802.11 master device

2006-01-19 Thread Mike Kershaw
don't know that userspace ought to be dealing with endian flipping for a specific card type. -m -- Mike Kershaw/Dragorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Fingerprint: 3546 89DF 3C9D ED80 3381 A661 D7B2 8822 738B BDB1 For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Unfortunately, for most people

Re: wireless: recap of current issues (configuration)

2006-01-15 Thread Mike Kershaw
this behaviour it can be done by user code. Right, no reason not to just put this into a hotplug script, is there? Is it, when it comes down to it, significantly different than automating firmware loads for the user? -m -- Mike Kershaw/Dragorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Fingerprint: 3546 89DF 3C9D ED80

Re: State of the Union: Wireless

2006-01-11 Thread Mike Kershaw
campaigned for RT previously so i won't bore people with it again now. :) -m -- Mike Kershaw/Dragorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Fingerprint: 3546 89DF 3C9D ED80 3381 A661 D7B2 8822 738B BDB1 America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair

Re: State of the Union: Wireless

2006-01-10 Thread Mike Kershaw
the rfmon device. I want my cake, and to eat it too. :P -m -- Mike Kershaw/Dragorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Fingerprint: 3546 89DF 3C9D ED80 3381 A661 D7B2 8822 738B BDB1 Dear Die-ary, Today I stuffed some dolls with dead rats I put in a blender. I'm beginning to wonder if, maybe, I really am

Re: [Bcm43xx-dev] [Fwd: State of the Union: Wireless]

2006-01-06 Thread Mike Kershaw
different things. -m -- Mike Kershaw/Dragorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Fingerprint: 3546 89DF 3C9D ED80 3381 A661 D7B2 8822 738B BDB1 We're sorry, Susy won't be attending classes for the rest of this academic year. She caught the measles, and we had her shot. pgp6zOxSn9Mf1.pgp Description: PGP

Re: State of the Union: Wireless

2006-01-06 Thread Mike Kershaw
to break. I don't know if the solution to this is a warning, marking non-rfmon virtual interfaces down, or just saying they'll figure it out, but I figured it's worth considering at an early stage. -m -- Mike Kershaw/Dragorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Fingerprint: 3546 89DF 3C9D ED80 3381 A661 D7B2 8822

Re: [PATCH] [PRISM54] Fix leaking of kernel buffers into short frames

2005-11-12 Thread Mike Kershaw
: Mike, Please explain why the patch below is any better/worse than the patch here: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-netdevm=112997172112090w=2 Thanks! John On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 01:47:00PM -0500, Mike Kershaw wrote: Josh Wright and I encountered this doing rawtx

Re: ieee80211 patches

2005-08-26 Thread Mike Kershaw
and anything else that decodes the frame and needs to know if 4 trailing bytes are tacked on). If you already emit prism2 or avs headers, switching to emitting radiotap is about 10 minutes worth of code. -m -- Mike Kershaw/Dragorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Fingerprint: 3546 89DF 3C9D ED80 3381 A661

Re: [Patch] Set link type on tun/tap virtual interface

2005-08-24 Thread Mike Kershaw
on the range happily. I wanted to leave it open for future arp types rather than restrict it to a specific set and cause more patching in the future. -m -- Mike Kershaw/Dragorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Fingerprint: 3546 89DF 3C9D ED80 3381 A661 D7B2 8822 738B BDB1 Give a man a fire, and he's warm

[Patch] Set link type on tun/tap virtual interface

2005-08-23 Thread Mike Kershaw
Very small patch to allow setting of the link type of the virtual tapX interfaces in tun/tap. Needed for writing packets of other arp link types to tap, ie 80211 wireless frames. Implemented as a simple IOCTL to set the arptype. -m -- Mike Kershaw/Dragorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Fingerprint