packet injection questions

[vda at port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua]

On Wednesday 11 February 2004 10:41, kala_maico at tiscali.it wrote:
> Hello again,
>
> thanks for the answers! I have been unable to suppress Beacons, as I
> expected. If I remember right the standard says they're compulsory... and
> Jouni, it's correct that a value of 65535 is like 4096. A ethereal run
> shows that beacons are sent every 4.2 secs (approx).
>
> If I switch to a mode other than Master I have other issues coming up, as
> I outlined in a previous mail (bssid field being altered by -I guess- the
> firmware).
>
> You spoke about "sources of the firmware": are they available somewhere?
> Is there a legal way to obtain them (perhaps on a NDA)? All what I have
> now is the source code of the driver, but not of the firmware.

Heh. It would be very cool to be able to play with firmware source.
But AFAIK no hardware vendor opened their specs to this degree.
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vda