Monitor mode not working for iwi(4) on 7.X

[Paul B Mahol]

On 10/8/10, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 12:44:20PM +0000, Paul B Mahol wrote:
>> On 10/7/10, Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> > finding where the regression happened - eg, which revision along the
>> > 6.x/head branch at the time caused the issue, would likely help
>> > Bernard very much..
>
> Certainly, if my resources would permit, I'd bisect to offending
> revision(s) myself.  However, I'm away from home right now, with just my
> laptop with me with no free space to host another FreeBSD installation.
>
>> Also, exact instructions how to reproduce problem would help.
>
> That's easy:
> # aireplay-ng -9 iwi0  ;-)
>
>> Monitor and injection work commpletly different after vap.
>>
>> I do not think that kismet and aircrack-ng from ports are patched at all.
>
> This is at least partially true; SVN trunk of aircrack-ng behaves better
> than 1.1 version from ports (WRT infamous wi_write() problem).  I will
> work out patches for the port after kernel side will get fixed.

Heh, you are wrong, svn trunk of aircrack-ng is broken versus
wi_write() "problem".

Look at "famous" ticket number 666

Injection on FreeBSD (I forgot exact revision) will work only in AHDEMO mode.
Unlike before you can not inject in MONITOR mode.