Hi, Quoting Michael H. Warfield (mhwat_private): > On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 12:37:14AM +0200, Robert van der Meulen wrote: > > This is probably just a matter of time; orinoco cards (and i suspect > > practically any other 802.11 card) support monitor mode. > > Currently, the PrismII is popular, because it seems to be the only card > > having an implementation of the monitor mode command stuff in the standard > > linux kernel ;) > I thought you had to apply patches to the Prism drivers in the > "standard linux kernel". Which version of the kernel has these patches > "standard"? As far as i know, no patches are needed. I don't have a prismII based card, so my information comes from reading kernelsource. The kernelsource i was looking at, was something 2.4.7-ac11-ish. > Patches are also available for the Cisco Aironet 340/450 (aka > aironet4500) cards. Patches are not currently available for cards based > on the Lucent Chipset (Cabletron, Lucent WaveLAN, Lucent Orinoco) but > should be possible. Correct me if i'm wrong, but iirc the Lucent cards use Hermes chipsets - i don't know if Lucent owns the rights to that though ;) Greets, Robert -- Linux Generation encrypted mail preferred. finger rvdmat_private for my GnuPG/PGP key. "There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence." -- Jeremy Anderson ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This list is provided by the SecurityFocus Security Intelligence Alert (SIA) Service. For more information on SecurityFocus' SIA service which automatically alerts you to the latest security vulnerabilities please see: https://alerts.securityfocus.com/
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