Bug 365251 - Can no longer add monitor mode device
Summary: Can no longer add monitor mode device
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: John W. Linville
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-11-03 14:57 UTC by David Woodhouse
Modified: 2008-02-13 20:39 UTC (History)
0 users

Fixed In Version: 2.6.23.8-63
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Last Closed: 2008-02-13 20:39:11 UTC
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Description David Woodhouse 2007-11-03 14:57:54 UTC
Until recently I could do this:
 echo -n moni0 > /sys/class/ieee80211/phy*/add_iface
 iwconfig moni0 mode monitor
 ip link set moni0 up
 tcpdump -i moni0 -l -n

It doesn't work in Fedora 8 though -- what replaces it?

Comment 1 John W. Linville 2007-11-21 21:48:04 UTC
Those bits were removed upstream in order to reduce the sysfs user interface 
commitment.  It may or may not come back there.

The netlink-based tool that give this functionality is here:

   http://git.sipsolutions.net/iw.git/

We probably need to get that packaged for F9.  But for now it doesn't do 
much...except add and remove interfaces... :-)

In the meantime, I'll add a patch to restore the sysfs bits in F8.  Please 
test 2.6.23.8-63.fc8 when it is available.  Does that work for you?


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