Fwd: [Orinoco-users] Monitor Mode with Agere Firmware 7.xx and 8.xx

[Eric Pretorious]

FWIW: The YDI Diamond is just a re-branded Orinoco Classic Silver. I checked the manufacturer's web site (http://www.ydi.com == http://www.proxim.com) and, apparently, the most current release of the firmware is version 8.72. I suppose that I should just start looking for a non-Orinoco PCMCIA card with external antenna connector.

Thoughts? Recommendations?

Eric Pretorious
Sunnyvale, CA

Eric Pretorious <epretorious at yahoo.com> wrote: I just discovered that my YDI Diamond PCMCIA card doesn't work with version 0.15 of the Orinoco code - Firmware versions 7.XX and 8.XX are not supported by the Orinoco code. (It worked just fine with *patched* versions of the earlier code, though.)

Thoughts? Suggestions?

Eric Pretorious
Sunnyvale, CA

Eric Pretorious <epretorious at yahoo.com> wrote: Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 18:48:07 -0700 (PDT)
From: Eric Pretorious <epretorious at yahoo.com>
To: orinoco-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Orinoco-users] Monitor Mode with Agere Firmware 7.xx and 8.xx

 A long time ago I used to use my YDI Diamond card...

> [epretorious at localhost ~]$ /sbin/pccardctl ident
> Socket 0:
>   product info: "Lucent Technologies", "WaveLAN/IEEE", "Version 01.01", ""
>   manfid:  0x0156, 0x0002
>   function: 6 (network)

...with Kismet. I applied the Orinoco Monitor Mode Patch to the Orinoco sources, compiled, and - Viola! - everything worked. But now that the Orinoco Driver includes the patch, I can't use my YDI Diamond card.

> Changes compared with the latest stable release (0.13e):
> 
>     * Monitor mode support (except Agere firmware 7.xx and 8.xx).

I had to use three different distro's (Mandriva 2007, Ubuntu 6.10, and *finally* BackTrack2) before I discovered the root cause:

> [epretorious at localhost ~]$ dmesg | tail -20
> pcmcia: registering new device pcmcia0.0
> orinoco 0.15 (David Gibson  <hermes at gibson.dropbear.id.au>, Pavel Roskin <proski at gnu.org>, et al)
> orinoco_cs 0.15 (David Gibson <hermes at gibson.dropbear.id.au>, Pavel Roskin <proski at gnu.org>, et al)
> eth2: Hardware identity 0001:0001:0004:0002
> eth2:  Station identity  001f:0001:0008:0034
> eth2: Firmware determined as Lucent/Agere 8.52
> eth2: Ad-hoc demo mode supported
> eth2: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported
> eth2: WEP supported, 104-bit key
> eth2: MAC address 00:02:2D:B5:8A:E0
> eth2: Station name "HERMES I"
> eth2: ready
> eth2: orinoco_cs at 0.0, irq 3, io 0x5100-0x513f
> eth2: Monitor mode support is buggy in this firmware, not enabling
> ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth2: link is not ready
> eth2: New link status: Connected (0001)
> ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth2: link becomes ready
> eth2: Monitor mode support is buggy in this firmware, not enabling
> eth2: no  IPv6 routers present
> eth2: Monitor mode support is buggy in this firmware, not enabling

(Neither of the other two distro's reported the card's firmware. Why?)

How can I get back to mapping networks?

 1. I can compile from source (if  I REALLY have to) - Is there some way to revert to the old patch? i.e., The one that supported my YDI Diamond card?
 2. I could just buy a different card with the newer firmware - Is there a list of Orinoco cards that have the newer firmware?
 3. I could just buy a different card with a different chipset - Is there a list of PCMCIA cards with external antenna connectors that support monitor mode?

Eric Pretorious
Sunnyvale, CA
           

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