[Q] Getting the Xoom to support monitor mode (it runs BCM4329)

[viss]

It looks like there are a variety of other devices that have the same chipset - I've perused around other threads where some people had some success doing it (samsung vibrant has the same wifi chipset). I was curious if this was on any of the devs radars at all - theres an entire community of pentesters and infosec folks twitching and biting their nails over the idea that one can run standard industry tools (like the aircrack suite) on this platform.

I've been able to install ubuntu on my xoom, however the kernel module for the chipset (bcm4329) doesn't currently support monitor mode.

Thoughts / ideas / advice?

 

[adecker]

I think this would be fun to have....

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[Blaisun]

I started a thread a couple of days ago wondering the same thing...

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=983646

am interested as well!!

 

[smaskell]

I work for the android development team at Broadcom and I didn't even know that the xoom used the bcm4329. That's interesting. Unfortunately, I can't really give you any information on your problem.

 

[viss]

I work for the android development team at Broadcom and I didn't even know that the xoom used the bcm4329. That's interesting. Unfortunately, I can't really give you any information on your problem.

Think theres a chance it can be tweaked at the android level?

 

[theimpaler747]

Moved. Please post in the correct section. Thank you.

 

[nindoja]

If other phones that have the same chipset work in monitor mode, it should be possible to port the code over to the existing wireless module we have now.

That said, it will probably be a bit of work porting from the version of Android on the Captivate (2.1, 2.2?) to 3.0.

 

[thenemis]

news
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1892535

xoom have bcm4329, maybe it work.
who test ?