From: Oleksij Rempel <linux@rempel-privat.de>
To: ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org
Subject: [ath9k-devel] ath9k_htc - Netgear WNDA3200 - monitor mode
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2016 07:13:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56F0E298.3060106@rempel-privat.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56F0676C.7040905@beardandsandals.co.uk>
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
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2016-03-21 21:28 [ath9k-devel] ath9k_htc - Netgear WNDA3200 - monitor mode Roger James
2016-03-22 5:40 ` Janusz Dziedzic
2016-03-22 6:13 ` Oleksij Rempel [this message]
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2016-03-22 16:17 Roger James
2016-03-22 16:19 Roger James
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