Unable to send other types of frames

[r0-l]

I tried to send other type of frames as the one in the example, but I'm unable to succeed.
The only type of frame I can send is beacon, other types such as probe doesn't seem to be sent.

I'm using Wireshark in monitor mode to sniff the frames.

[Jeija]

I was able to send IEEE 802.11 Data Frames using this packet header:

const uint8_t ieee80211header[] = {
	0x08, 0x00, // IEEE 802.11 data frame
	0x00, 0x00, // Duration 0
	0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff // Broadcast
};

You might also want to try different WiFi hardware on the receiving side and make sure you have successfully entered monitor mode (does wireshark sniff packets from other WiFi devices nearby?).

[r0-l]

Works well with the packet header you provided to send data frames.

The problem I had might just be that the function free80211_send can only send some types and subtypes of frames.
The data type works well, but the management type works only with the subtype beacon, as far as I've tested.

[risinek]

Check https://github.com/GANESH-ICMC/esp32-deauther that bypasses the restriction implemented in ESP-IDF

[wojtess]

https://gist.github.com/wojtess/ec441a1efa374b8b02f5e52633bfa3f4