Thread: Sailfish now on 1.0 (Jolla MWC announcement)
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nieldk
2014-03-11 , 08:04
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Originally Posted by szopin View Post
Funny thing is even on N900 most of the beautiful things on the list were not out of the box, reverse engineering wlan driver to allow injection (and monitor mode?), USB host mode were all done by members of community. Since Jolla uses Android drivers not holding my breath though, injection/monitor mode thread on XDA died long ago

edit: hmm, does anyone know of Android device that is capable of injection? Asking Jolla to put a little bit of effort in porting Sailfish to it wouldn't hurt (they claimed it can be done in 24hrs in many cases)
Not that simple I am afraid.
Like you said, that thread on XDA has been inactive for a long time.
There is a small effort to improve the driver here https://github.com/KrasnikovEugene/wcn36xx unfortunately, there is a major blocker preventing monitor mode (least to say packet injection. From that work, it is clear that it is the binary firmware that needs to be patched. Which is possible, but unlikely to happen as it is closed source. https://github.com/KrasnikovEugene/wcn36xx/issues/94

So, the best, still unlikely, possibility is, that Jolla can convince Qualcom to release new binary drivers