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Originally Posted by bulanula View Post
How about support for monitor mode and injection ?

What wireless chipset are you planning on using ?

Hopefully not the Marvell on the GTA04 which is not good for penetration testing.

I think the best wireless chip for this project is the CW1200 chip from ST microelectronics.

Here is the datasheet : http://www.calao-systems.com/reposit...ETS/CW1200.pdf

Specs :

-dual band 5 and 2.4 GHz
-a b g n standards
-host offloading of beacon and packet processing

This chipset is a SoftMAC so that allows for a finer control of the hardware, allowing for 802.11 frame management to be done in software, for both parsing and generation of 802.11 wireless frames. Thus, monitor mode and injection is 100% supported.

Open source driver accepted in the Linux kernel mainline with above penetration testing functionality :

http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/cw1200

I have no connection with ST microelectronics but I think it would be IDEAL if we can use this driver because N900 can do monitor mode and if Neo900 cannot then it would be a real shame / feature downgrade and I will not be buying it personally if it does not have this feature.

Maybe you can source the Azurewave NH-580 chip which has GPS / FM / BT provided by chip CG2900 and then WLAN by chip CW1200 all in one package etc. http://www.azurewave.com/product_AW-NH580_1.asp

Please make an effort to get a chip like this !
We will try to find a solution that supports monitor and injection, since that's of course an important feature and we want to use those devices ourselves as well.
For SOFTMAC: while it's fine for hacking, it ruins standby time since it needs active CPU all the time. We need a chipset that has both, softmac and hardmac. AIUI the "offloading" quoted by you is exactly a hardmac feature (unless they meant "offloading from wlan chipset to APE")

We also will see what can get done regarding 802.11a (5GHz) - the antenna in N900 case is not made for that, we need to test it and hope for a 5/8 tuning of the lambda/4 antenna.

/j
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