Re: Patch for prism 802.11 chipsets in monitor mode

[Daniel Miller <bonsaiviking () gmail com>]

Brad,

Thanks for this contribution! These bugs can often be hard to track down
because the user doesn't often understand or know what hardware might be
unusual in their setup. You've taken all the difficulty out of it :).
Committed in r33943.

Dan

On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 8:14 PM, Bradford W. Johnson <bradford () visi com>
wrote:

> Hi --
>
> Various versions of this bug have been fixed already; the symptom is
> that nmap can't find any interfaces when one interface is in monitor mode.
>
> Prism cards have their own header when in monitor mode, and thus the
> earlier fixes aren't enough.  I've attached the patch "firstdiff"
> against the current svn which clears this up.
>
>
> While poking around with this, I noticed an inconsistency in the
> constant naming (_HDR rather than _HRD).  The next patch "seconddiff"
> fixes both issues.  You'll want to use only one of them, and you get to
> decide whether making cosmetic-only changes is good.
>
> There's also a history file, libdnet-stripped/NMAP_MODIFICATIONS, and
> you'll want to add something to your taste there.  The HRD/HDR typo
> shows up at a number of places there, and maybe you want to fix all of
> them.  Or maybe you don't.
>
> Thanks for a really useful product!
>
> -- brad
>
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