Alfa AWUS036H WiFi - driver not supporting AHDEMO mode for injection

[Outback Dingo]

On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:

> Right, but someone has to go and teach the driver the bits needed to
> do raw frame injection.
>
> I don't unfortunately have the time to fix the driver(s) to support
> this. I'll fix it for ath(4) and make it work for 11n, then fix
> whatever odd crap comes up in the net80211 stack. But someone else has
> to pick up the driver. :P
>
>
>
So wait, are you stating FreeBSD supports packet injection in monitor mode
on ath5k/ath9k chips now??



>
> -adrian
>
> On 19 July 2013 15:16, Mark Moes <mark_moes at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> > I understand you want to fix it in 9.1. The reason that I was using 8.1
> is that I want to see how injection works there, to then somehow clone this
> to a distribution based on 8.1 which does not support injection. But I can
> install 9.1 alongside to test an updated driver in the future for sure.
> >
> > The hardware is capable of injection, listed at the aircrack-ng website
> as a recommendation etc.
> > http://www.aircrack-ng.org/doku.php?id=compatibility_drivers
> > http://softwaregeneration.org/alfa-network-awus036h-wifi/
> >
> > Is it complicated to add ahdemo support?
> >
> >
> > Mark
> >
> >> Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 14:41:25 -0700
> >> Subject: Re: Alfa AWUS036H WiFi - driver not supporting AHDEMO mode for
> injection
> >> From: adrian at freebsd.org
> >> To: mark_moes at hotmail.com
> >> CC: freebsd-wireless at freebsd.org
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> * Please update to -HEAD first; I'd like to fix packet injection mode
> >> (which means making ahdemo mode) but I'd like to do this in -HEAD.
> >> * I don't know if the hardware supports raw frame injection. Maybe it
> >> does but the driver hasn't been updated yet.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> -adrian
> >>
> >> On 19 July 2013 13:48, Mark Moes <mark_moes at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >> > Hi all!
> >> >
> >> > Having just posted opened a thread about this on the FreeBSD forum,
> I'll more or less copy/paste that post in this mail. Thread:
> http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?p=227470
> >> > - - -
> >> >
> >> > I have the "Alfa AWUS036h 802.11 b/g Long-Range USB Adapter"
> connected to my laptop which is running a FreeBSD 8.1 installation. The
> adapter is widely used for injecting wireless frames, which is my objective
> as well.
> >> >
> >> > I have set it up to use the urtw(4) driver (manpage) by loading the
> module at boot time.
> >> >
> >> > The output of `dmesg | grep urtw` is as follows:
> >> >
> >> > urtw0: <vendor 0x0bda product 0x8187, class 0/0, rev 2.00/1.00, addr
> 2> on usbus7
> >> > urtw0: unknown RTL8187L type: 0x8000000
> >> > urtw0: rtl8187l rf rtl8225u hwrev none
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > That looks kinda strange, but the adapter works and I am able to
> successfully create a wlan0 interface and connect to my WPA2 secured
> network.
> >> > However, if I want to create a wlan0 interface (after destroying the
> previous one) that is usable for packet injection, this is what I get.
> >> >
> >> > `ifconfig wlan create wlandev urtw0 wlanmode ahdemo`
> >> >
> >> > urtw0: AHDEMO mode not supported # <-- this line is colored white as
> opposed to normal gray
> >> > ifconfig: SIOCIFCREATE2: Operation not supported
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Is this mode simply not (yet) supported?
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Cheers,
> >> >
> >> > Mark / asfdg
> >> >
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