On Wednesday 15 February 2006 18:12, you wrote: > 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.
Ah, thanks. Will try this. BTW: Am I blind, or is the Kconfig option for ipw2200 monitor mode really missing? I did define the CONFIG_IPW2200_MONITOR manually in the ipw2200.h. -- Greetings Michael.
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