- catch up with changed sniffing behaviour in newer wlan-ng *puke* drivers

- new API: OPacketCapturer::next( int time )

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/libopie2/opienet/onetwork.cpp b/libopie2/opienet/onetwork.cpp
index 1f529d2..45ee4c0 100644
--- a/libopie2/opienet/onetwork.cpp
+++ b/libopie2/opienet/onetwork.cpp
@@ -932,8 +932,14 @@ QString OWlanNGMonitoringInterface::name() const
 
 
-void OWlanNGMonitoringInterface::setChannel( int )
+void OWlanNGMonitoringInterface::setChannel( int c )
 {
-    // wlan-ng devices automatically switch channels when in monitor mode
-    // NOTE: The above note no longer seems to be true for recent driver versions!
+    //NOTE: Older wlan-ng drivers automatically hopped channels while lnxreq_wlansniff=true. Newer ones don't.
+
+    QString enable = "true"; //_if->monitorMode() ? "true" : "false";
+    QString prism = _prismHeader ? "true" : "false";
+    QString cmd;
+    cmd.sprintf( "$(which wlanctl-ng) %s lnxreq_wlansniff channel=%d enable=%s prismheader=%s",
+                 (const char*) _if->name(), c+1, (const char*) enable, (const char*) prism );
+    system( cmd );
 }