I took this function as a starting point: ieee80211_send_probereq , on most FreeBSD branches it has the same signature ( here's an example https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/blob ... 1_output.c ) :
ieee80211_send_probereq(struct ieee80211_node *ni,
const uint8_t sa[IEEE80211_ADDR_LEN],
const uint8_t da[IEEE80211_ADDR_LEN],
const uint8_t bssid[IEEE80211_ADDR_LEN],
const uint8_t *ssid, size_t ssidlen)
The only unknown is the ieee80211_node argument. It turns out the ESP has a basic config struct at the address _irom0_text_start+0xc, it appears everywhere on the disassembled code.
Looking at the function eagle_lwip_getif,
40213200 <eagle_lwip_getif>:
40213200: f38341 l32r a4, 4021000c <_irom0_text_start+0xc>
40213203: 62cc bnez.n a2, 4021320d <eagle_lwip_getif+0xd>
40213205: 4428 l32i.n a2, a4, 16
40213207: 32dc bnez.n a2, 4021321e <eagle_lwip_getif+0x1e>
40213209: 020c movi.n a2, 0
4021320b: f00d ret.n
4021320d: 0b1266 bnei a2, 1, 4021321c <eagle_lwip_getif+0x1c>
40213210: 5428 l32i.n a2, a4, 20
40213212: 228c beqz.n a2, 40213218 <eagle_lwip_getif+0x18>
40213214: 0228 l32i.n a2, a2, 0
40213216: f00d ret.n
40213218: 020c movi.n a2, 0
4021321a: f00d ret.n
4021321c: f00d ret.n
4021321e: 0228 l32i.n a2, a2, 0
40213220: f00d ret.n
it became clear the ROM has two ieee80211_node structures, one for the soft ap, the other for the station client. One is on offset 16 from the main config struct, the other on offset 20.
Guessing the signature was easy :
struct ieee80211_node * eagle_lwip_getif(int id);
Passing 1 returns a pointer to the access pointer node, 0 for the station ap.
Using this pointer as first argument on the ieee80211_send_probereq function allows me to successfully inject a probe request packet.
A second step would be writing a function in C that replicates the ieee80211_send_probereq,
basically creating a management frame using ieee80211_getmgtframe, configuring it and finally outputting the frame via ieee80211_mgmt_output which internally calls ieee80211_raw_output which in my opinion is replaced by ppTxPkt in ESP, so maybe the signature is similar. But I didn't go down that road so much. Help would be appreciated.