[CUWiN-Dev] Minitor mode with Atheros

[David Young]

On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 09:44:10PM +0900, Jeongkeun Lee wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
>  
> 
> As I'm trying to use one mesh node as a packet sniffer, I have been testing
> the monitor mode and resulted in some problem. I'm using cuwin-0.6.0 and the
> Atheros driver in the corresponding cuwin-0.6.0 netbsd source. 
> 
>  
> 
> In ifconfig.backhaul.tmpl, the 'adhoc' media opt was changed to 'monitor' as
> follows:
> 
> media auto mediaopt adhoc mode 11a
> 
>  
> 
> When I reboot the node, I encounter the continuous error messages:
> 'ath_start: encapsulation failure' and the ath0 interface does not work.

You cannot transmit packets in monitor mode.  It is a receive-only mode.
What are you trying to achieve?  I can probably suggest a different way.

Dave

-- 
David Young             OJC Technologies
dyoung at ojctech.com      Urbana, IL * (217) 278-3933