Thread: [Announce] bleeding-edge wl1251 wifi driver for Maemo Fremantle
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Mentalist Traceur is offline Mentalist Traceur
2011-05-15 , 22:33
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#389
Originally Posted by Radicalz38 View Post
No I don't think so... As Pali clearly said that kernel power v47 does not support bleeding edge driver. It may load the necessary modules successfully but it that doesn't mean it would also allow monitor mode which is the main requirement for pentesting.
I think someone didn't read what Pali said properly - or Pali didn't explain himself clearly, whatever. I haven't checked this thread in a while.

Anyway, yes, monitor mode and injection BOTH WORK with power kernel 47. Just as they did on 46-wl.

What it doesn't do is come with them included by default. You still have to manually load the respective injection capable modules. BUT, once you've loaded them, everything works fine. As was said at the very beginning of this thread, the ONLY difference between power46 and power46-wl was that cfg80211 was compiled as a module instead of statically linked (so that you could unload 'normal' cfg80211 and load the injection supporting one).

power47 includes that change, so you can unload and load cfg80211 modules as necessary - by extension, if you have the modules you can load them, and they work identically in power47 and power46-wl.