Michael Buesch wrote:
>On Wednesday 15 February 2006 01:18, you wrote:
>
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>When I put my ipw2200 into monitor mode, I get my dmesg spammed with this:
>>ipw2200: Firmware error detected. Restarting.
>>The card looses packets, obviously.
>>
>>I googled, and I found a website [1], stating that this is
>>a firmware bug and known since summer 2005.
>>So, if this is a firmware bug, is it ever going to be fixed?
>>
>>I need the IPW card to monitor the traffic of my bcm43xx cards.
>>I really need working monitor mode in the ipw2200 at the moment.
>>If someone knows a way to get it working, _please_ tell me.
>>(hwcrypto=0 does not work. Already tried that)
>>
>>
As a temporary work around, you can copy the ipw-2.3 firmware files over
the ipw-2.4 firmware files (so hotplug finds them) and monitor mode will
work fine. Alternatively, you can install the 2.3 firmware files and
change the line in ipw2200.c that sets the IPW_FW_MINOR_VERSION version
from 4 back down to 3:
% sed -i -e "s:IPW_FW_MINOR_VERSION 4:IPW_FW_MINOR_VERSION 3:g" \
drivers/net/wireless/ipw2200.c
The problem is a version conflict between the boot firmware provided in
the 2.4 firmware package and the monitor mode firmware file. We're
working to correct that problem.
James
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