[kismac] Re: [OpenSVN] r84 committed.
- From: John Warren <xaive1@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: kismac@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 13:04:27 -0800
Are you talking about performing benchmarking and then performing
sudo kextload wlandriver.kext
And then performing benchmarks again? Or something else. I'd love to help.
On 2/16/06, Geoffrey Kruse <gkruse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Feb 16, 2006, at 1:25 PM, Michael Rossberg wrote:
>
> >
> > On 16.02.2006, at 21:16, Jesse Stanford wrote:
> >
> >> You have to make sure you sudo it, and on occasion it has failed
> >> for me as well. Does a kextload fail as well? Make sure you are
> >> doing the AppleAIrport2.kext (not appleairport.kext)
> >> Sometimes it fails on a first attempt but succeeds on a second, or
> >> vice versa.
> >>
> >> I find it weird that a kextunload would fail, especially if it's
> >> run from sudo.. if you have root enabled, can you type login,
> >> login to root, and execute it there? Or does it also fail there?
> >> Jesse
> >
> > the problem is that the driver, has to accept the unload attempt.
> > and it takes the driver a while. it does not matter whether it is
> > root or sudo.
> > it does help to quit all networking applications though. however
> > kismac tries that before loading too....
> > can someone do some benchmarks with monitor mode disabled and with
> > monitor mode enabled (just the wlt device created, not kismac
> > running) it is supposed to effect the performance, however i am not
> > sure in what dimension, and i dont have an airport extreme card to
> > test myself. if it is not too bad, we can consider enabling it once
> > upon kismacs installation, and disable it whenever kismac is
> > removed...
> >
> > mick
> >
>
> I will run some tests later today. I suppose by performance, you
> mean both cpu and bandwidth?
>
> Geoff
>
>
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