FreeBSD vs eMachines M6805 part II

[Bill Paul]

> On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 09:54:45PM -0500, Chris Faulhaber wrote:
> > Heh, I forgot about Project Evil.  Yep, the ndis wrapper works
> > well.  Pure Evil.
> > 
> >   ndis0: <Broadcom 54g MaxPerformance 802.11g> mem 0xd0000000-0xd0001fff irq 10 at device 12.0 on pci0
> 
> Does anybody have any idea what it would take to make if_ndis(4) support
> radiotap (DLT_IEEE802_11_RADIO) ? This would be more Evil.
> 
> I don't have an ndis wireless device with which to test/hack at this time.
> 
> BMS

For the umpity-umpth time: existing Windows NDIS drivers are implemented
using the 802.3 (ethernet) link type. They don't support monitor mode or
raw 802.11 frame formats, so it is not possible to implement radiotap
with them.

Any vendor that claims to let you read/send raw 802.11 frames with
their device has implemented a non-standard interface that falls outside
the NDIS API.

-Bill

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