TX Packets in Monitor Mode

[Pavel Roskin]

Hello!

On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 21:44 -0600, Wireless Dude wrote:

> Using this method I can set the address fields to what ever I want.
> I have noticed that it is possible to change the source address (addr2).
> The prism programmers manual seems to indicate that the firmware will 
> automatically set addr2 but this doesn't seemd to be the case.

Perhaps the monitor mode is an exception.

> When I try to set TODS in the frame control field the card seems to 
> construct the packet using the 802.3 header info, even through the 
> struct_type in the TxControl field that gets passed to the card as part of 
> the hfa384x_tx_frame is set to 1 (ie 802.11 format).
> 
> Has anyone seen behaviour like this?

Try filling the 802.3 header with zeroes.  Something like this was found
in Lucent cards.

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin