Bug 146215 - ipw2200 will not enter monitor mode in 2.6.15-git12-6-default
Summary: ipw2200 will not enter monitor mode in 2.6.15-git12-6-default
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
: 146239 (view as bug list)
Alias: None
Product: SUSE Linux 10.1
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Kernel (show other bugs)
Version: Beta 1
Hardware: i586 Other
: P5 - None : Normal with 5 votes (vote)
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Assignee: Yi Zhu
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Reported: 2006-01-27 16:57 UTC by John Barton
Modified: 2007-04-29 02:53 UTC (History)
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Description John Barton 2006-01-27 16:57:22 UTC 
Kismet will not run in 10.1 beta 1 on Dell 700m laptop with ipw2200 centrino wireless.

I get the following error trying to execute kismet_server:
Source 0 (default): Enabling monitor mode for ipw2200 source interface eth1 channel 6...
FATAL: Failed to set monitor mode: Invalid argument.  This usually means your drivers either do not support monitor mode, or use a different mechanism for getting to it.  Make sure you have a version of your drivers that support monitor mode, and consult the troubleshooting section of the README.


Monitor mode worked properly on same hardware running older kernel on different distribution
Comment 1 Olaf Kirch 2006-01-27 17:28:02 UTC 
Jiri, can you look into this?

Zhu Yi, any idea what may cause this?
Comment 2 John Barton 2006-01-27 17:32:16 UTC 
*** Bug 146239 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Yi Zhu 2006-02-06 05:33:20 UTC 
The patch is missed from upstream. I'll submit it to upstream again.
http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/5/319
Comment 4 Andreas Kleen 2006-02-23 09:56:28 UTC 
Ran into this on my laptop too.
Comment 5 Yi Zhu 2006-02-24 04:04:03 UTC 
The patch in comment #3 is not in netdev GIT, but not Linus' GIT. Please apply it to SuSE kernel cvs.
Comment 6 Forgotten User 4Cp5OYkKcG 2006-04-05 02:17:29 UTC 
This is still not fixed in beta9 2.6.16-8-default. 

It is annoying to recompile the ipw2200 kernel module for every release to get kismet working on my laptop...
Comment 7 Gerald Pfeifer 2006-04-20 21:59:48 UTC 
Zhu Yi, Rolla, would you mind attaching a patch against our kernel and
reassign this to the kernel-maintainers list?  Thanks!
Comment 8 Yi Zhu 2006-04-21 06:55:43 UTC 
The patch from comment #3 is in Linus' GIT now. Maybe SuSE will merge it as well. I don't know what to get SuSE's kernel tree so I cannot make a patch against that.
Comment 9 dsdf sdsd 2006-05-15 09:58:30 UTC 
FYI: This is still not fixed in the released GM 10.1 2.6.16.13-4-default

dito comment #6
Comment 10 John Pugh 2007-03-15 19:23:21 UTC 
Did not see resolution...is this fixed in 10.2?
Comment 11 Forgotten User 4Cp5OYkKcG 2007-03-15 20:42:09 UTC 
This seems to be fixed - tested with 2.6.18.2-34-default on openSUSE 10.2
Comment 12 Yi Zhu 2007-04-29 02:53:25 UTC 
According to comment #11, mark as fixed. BTW this is an intergration bug, please assign to someone else in the future.