| Posted by: | fried |
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| Subject: | ipw2200 driver in the 2.6.16.16 kernel |
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| Date: | 12:11:50 04/06/2006 |
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> I've been successfully using the ipw2200 drivers from sourceforge for a long time. I remember having some trouble with the ipw2200 driver which came with the kernel in the past. This last time around when installing 2.6.16.16 kernel I thought I'd give it a try again and compiled it in. According to the README it should be version 1.0.8 which I have successfully used with Kismet in the past. According to the README it supports monitor mode, however this kernel driver does _not_ support monitor mode and kismet won't work with it.
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> What gives? Are they purposely distributing a neutered driver with the kernel sources? If I download the driver from sf.net and paste it into my kernel tree will that work?
The drivers from sf.net worked for me after manually activating monitor mode:
I just put the line
#define CONFIG_IPW2200_MONITOR
after the #include-statements in ipw2200.c and recompiled everything.
versions: kernel 2.6.16.16, ipw2200-fw 3.0, ipw2200-driver 1.1.2 and ieee80211 1.1.13
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