Ath10 firmware crashing in Monitor mode(Sniffer mode)

[s prasad]

Thank you Ben , Michal and Kalle.

Please let us know if you find any.

Thank you so much.

Regards,
S Prasad

On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 10:41 AM, Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 05/12/2015 03:14 AM, Michal Kazior wrote:
>>
>> On 12 May 2015 at 11:31, s prasad <sprasad.kandregula at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> May I know, is this firmware or driver constraint?
>>> If somebody have patch for this, am ready to test it.
>>
>>
>> Short answer: There's nothing, yet.
>>
>> Long answer:
>>
>>  From what I know official firmware doesn't support injecting packets
>> via monitor vdev. This is a firmware limitation.
>>
>> A way around this may be creating and using an additional vdev, e.g.
>> AP. This will be rather ugly but may work. There's no patch for it.
>>
>> An alternative would be to ask Ben to modify his CT-firmware branch.
>
>
> I gave this a decent try a month or two ago, and had no luck.  The hardware
> (from what I can tell), just will not send a frame to an unknown peer.
>
> I noticed the other day that ANQP will not work on ath10k, and I suspect
> similar issues..so I will be in that code again.  Maybe I'll learn
> how to trick it into sending arbitrary frames.
>
> All that said, there is no way to specify rate-ctrl info on a per-pkt
> basis when injecting frames, so I don't know what good injecting frames
> on a mgt device will accomplish.
>
> Thanks,
> Ben
>
>> Also there's a problem with submitting raw 802.11 frames to firmware.
>> There's some work ongoing [1].
>>
>> [1]: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/ath10k/2015-May/005144.html
>>
>>
>> Michał
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S Prasad Kandregula