- implement switching monitor mode on hostap

- work around damn buggy hostap drivers needing more space for SIOCGIWRANGE than defined by sizeof(struct iw_range)...

1 files changed, 29 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/libopie2/opienet/onetwork.cpp b/libopie2/opienet/onetwork.cpp
index 21fa390..cd36f16 100644
--- a/libopie2/opienet/onetwork.cpp
+++ b/libopie2/opienet/onetwork.cpp
@@ -379,8 +379,10 @@ void OWirelessNetworkInterface::init()
     // IEEE802.11(b) radio frequency channels
-    //FIXME: get these directly from the interface
-    //FIXME: check if these channels are off-by-one
 
     iwrangestruct range;
+    //ML: work around an ugly HostAP bug, which needs
+    //ML: extra space or will complain with "invalid argument length"... :-(
+    char __extraBufferForBuggyDrivers[sizeof range];
     _iwr.u.data.pointer = (char*) ⦥
-    _iwr.u.data.length = sizeof( iwrangestruct );
+    _iwr.u.data.length = (sizeof range) * 2;
+    _iwr.u.data.flags = 0;
     if ( !wioctl( SIOCGIWRANGE ) )
@@ -723,11 +725,26 @@ void OHostAPMonitoringInterface::setEnabled( bool b )
 
-    #if WIRELESS_EXT > 14
-    _if->_iwr.u.mode = IW_MODE_MONITOR;
-    _if->wioctl( SIOCSIWMODE );
-    #else
-    int* args = (int*) &_if->_iwr.u.name;
-    args[0] = 2;
-    args[1] = 0;
-    _if->wioctl( SIOCDEVPRIVATE );
-    #endif
+    if ( b )
+    {
+        #if WIRELESS_EXT > 14
+        _if->_iwr.u.mode = IW_MODE_MONITOR;
+        _if->wioctl( SIOCSIWMODE );
+        #else
+        int* args = (int*) &_if->_iwr.u.name;
+        args[0] = 2;
+        args[1] = 0;
+        _if->wioctl( SIOCDEVPRIVATE );
+        #endif
+    }
+    else
+    {
+        #if WIRELESS_EXT > 14
+        _if->_iwr.u.mode = IW_MODE_INFRA;
+        _if->wioctl( SIOCSIWMODE );
+        #else
+        int* args = (int*) &_if->_iwr.u.name;
+        args[0] = 0;
+        args[1] = 0;
+        _if->wioctl( SIOCDEVPRIVATE );
+        #endif
+    }