On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 12:30, Alan Cox wrote:
On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 02:33:21AM +0100, Jonathan Andrews wrote:
> distributions because for reasons purely political (as far as I can
> tell???) the promisc mode was left on the cutting room floor !!! WHY
> !!!!
Promisc mode (on those adapters that support it) is actually rather
complicated in the wireless world. A lot of the old prism firmware doesn't
support it for example. OpenAP has to basically take over the h/w at a much
lower level to handle that and that involves a native 802.11 stack - which
oddly enough is the direction that stuff is going
Cool :-)
Monitor mode is optional as far as I understand it. Users will tolerate
a "your hardware wont do that message" more than a "please use xyz
wifi_the_bits_we_left_out.diff and recompile the kernel" ;-)
I understand its a mess at the hardware level and having raw 802.11 will
be cool, but at the moment its getting messy.
I find lots like this of threads like this
http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3192
http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3245
http://www.bastard.net/~kos/wifi/rfmon.html
It would be nice to be able to use cool toys without building new kernel
or modules :-) Im sure that fedora will be on a lot of laptops, I know
its on mine - and wifi even works :-D
Cheers,
Jon