Re: rtl8187 bug report

[Hin-Tak Leung <hintak.leung@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Info[at]Giuppi <info@giuppi.com> wrote=
:
> I have a rtl8187B usb dongle, works pretty well with new driver rtl81=
87.
> Thanks for the great job you're doing.
>
> The problem comes when I try to handle my WEP protected network in
> monitor mode.
> It becomes really slow in finding/showing the network and when it
> appears in the list, no activity
> is detected. I mean beacons or data remains at 0 in the airodump-ng
> screen (from latest svn aircrack-ng suite)
>
> Everything works fine in managed mode and the network is easily detec=
ted
> and i can connect too.
>
> I also have a rt73usb device and this one works as expected.
>
> I'm currently using ubuntu-backport modules but I've also tryed the
> compat-wireless package dated 17 march
> kernel version 2.6.27-13-generic
>
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I am not familiar with aircrack-ng, but I believe it can be used with
a modified version of the vendor rtl8187 driver, (and the aircrack-ng
people hosts a modified version of the vendor driver on their web
site). I have not actually looked at their modification so I have no
idea what modification is required for aircrack-ng to work well, but I
believe *some* adaptation is required?

On a different issue - I think such adaptation are frown upon and will
not make it into the standard kernel, due to its nature of typical
usage in a controversal scenario. Maybe other wireless dev people,
especially Herton and Larry, can advise.
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