Bug? After switching from monitor mode to master, hostap sends *invalid* *IBSS* beacons

Jouni Malinen jkmaline
Tue Apr 5 19:29:20 PDT 2005


On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 10:12:08AM +0300, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> I already reported this:
> 
> # iwconfig wlan0 mode monitor
> # iwconfig wlan0 mode master
> 
> I see wlan0 emitting *IBSS* beacons!

Looks like you may have trigger a firmware bug. I haven't yet looked
into details, but based on your fix, it looks like some workaround code
would need to be added to make sure firmware gets reseted correctly for
this case.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA




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