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Old 04-03-2005   #1 (permalink)
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ipw2200 in Monitor mode ?
Hello,

Recently I have downloaded and installed ipw2200-1.0.2.tgz and ipw2200-fw-2.2.tgz on my intel thinkpad R50e laptop.
In the Makefile I have uncommented the entry "CONFIG_IPW_MONITOR=y".
The card seems to be in Monitor mode after issueing the command "iwconfig eth1 mode monitor" :

# iwconfig
eth1 unassociated ESSIDff/any
Mode:Monitor Channel=0 Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
Bit Rate=0 kb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm
RTS thrff Fragment thrff
Encryption keyff
Power Managementff
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0


But sniffing packets does not work and dmesg gives me out following error message:

ipw2200: ipw-2.2-sniffer_ucode.fw load failed: Reason -2
ipw2200: Unable to load firmware: 0xFFFFFFFE
ipw2200: Failed to up device
ipw2200: No space for Tx
ipw2200: failed to send SCAN_REQUEST_EXT command

It seems that the firmware code "ipw-2.2-sniffer_ucode.fw" is missing.
I could not find it anywhere on the internet. Does anybody know where it can be obtained ?


The strange thing is that monitoring mode does work under windows XP with the netstumbler programm.
What kind of driver does netstumbler use ? Is it an intel driver or a windows native one ?

Thanks,

quirxi
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The strange thing is that monitoring mode does work under windows XP with the netstumbler programm.
What kind of driver does netstumbler use ? Is it an intel driver or a windows native one ?
No, it does not, as NetStumbler isn't using monitor mode. NS is an ACTIVE scanner, sending out probe requests and listening for responses from AP. And NS in combination with any other card than a Hermes based card (fully native supported), an Atheros or Prism2 based card (partly native supported, uses the NDIS 5.1 driver API.
Monitor mode is used by passive scanners.

As for getting your IPW2200 working under Linux, try to check the IPW driver support site, or a linux oriented hardware site.
It is outside the scope of netstumbler.org's agenda.
Contrary to popular belief, netstumbler.org isn't a general support site for whatever hardware you need to get working.

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