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Atheros Madwifi-ng patch Revision 3876
Copy paste the text shown below into a file called madwifing-r3876.patch.
--- madwifi/ath/if_ath.c 2008-11-07 01:05:07.000000000 -0500
+++ madwifi-patched/ath/if_ath.c 2008-11-06 17:56:59.000000000 -0500
@@ -3000,6 +3000,7 @@
ath_tx_startraw(struct net_device *dev, struct ath_buf *bf, struct sk_buff *skb)
{
struct ath_softc *sc = dev->priv;
+ struct ieee80211com *ic = &sc->sc_ic;
struct ath_hal *ah = sc->sc_ah;
struct ieee80211_phy_params *ph = &(SKB_CB(skb)->phy);
const HAL_RATE_TABLE *rt;
@@ -3012,7 +3013,8 @@
struct ieee80211_frame *wh;
wh = (struct ieee80211_frame *)skb->data;
- try0 = ph->try[0];
+ //try0 = ph->try[0];
+ try0 = (ic->ic_opmode == IEEE80211_M_MONITOR) ? 1 : ph->try[0];
rt = sc->sc_currates;
txrate = dot11_to_ratecode(sc, rt, ph->rate[0]);
power = ph->power > 60 ? 60 : ph->power;
@@ -3036,7 +3038,8 @@
rt = sc->sc_currates;
KASSERT(rt != NULL, ("no rate table, mode %u", sc->sc_curmode));
- if (IEEE80211_IS_MULTICAST(wh->i_addr1)) {
+ //if (IEEE80211_IS_MULTICAST(wh->i_addr1)) {
+ if (IEEE80211_IS_MULTICAST(wh->i_addr1) || ((ic->ic_opmode == IEEE80211_M_MONITOR) && (skb->data[1]&3) != 0x01) ) {
flags |= HAL_TXDESC_NOACK; /* no ack on broad/multicast */
sc->sc_stats.ast_tx_noack++;
try0 = 1;
Check out the madwifi driver as follows:
sudo ifconfig ath0 down
sudo ifconfig wifi0 down
svn -r 3876 checkout http://svn.madwifi.org/madwifi/trunk/ madwifi-ng
cd madwifi-ng
patch -Np1 -i ../madwifing-r3876.patch
sudo ./scripts/madwifi-unload
make
sudo make install
sudo depmod -ae
sudo modprobe ath_pci
These instructions are similar to the ones written here (for a different revision):
http://www.aircrack-ng.org/doku.php?id=madwifi-ng