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From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: raghunathan.kailasanathan@wipro.com
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: unable to put RTL8192SU in master mode
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 08:39:57 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D4183BD.3060609@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6D6CA94E9F944C45ABD35E9F7E1CAE619BBF56D579@BLR-SJP-MB02.wipro.com>

On 01/27/2011 07:31 AM, raghunathan.kailasanathan@wipro.com wrote:
> Hi folks,
> I have a USB dongle with realtek 8192SU wireless chipset and am using the 8712u linux driver.

The driver from the Realtek web site is named 8712u, and the one in the kernel
staging tree (2.6.37 and later) is called r8712u. Which one are you using? They
are not the same.

> Since this driver is not mac80211 compliant I am using iwconfig to change the mode to "master". Though this
> command successfully changes the mode I am unable to connect to this AP from another station, even using
> unsecured method. It does not even show up in the station scan list.  Are there some other params I need to 
> set using iwconfig ?
> 
> Or is the 8712u driver not supporting master mode "sufficiently" enough ?...in which case is some latest
> driver available for this thing?

Master mode with r8712u has not been tested. The driver I started with has a
configuration parameter that enables "AP mode". I kept that in, but I do not
know if it works.

Larry


  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-27 14:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-27 13:31 unable to put RTL8192SU in master mode raghunathan.kailasanathan
2011-01-27 14:39 ` Larry Finger [this message]
2011-01-28  4:05   ` raghunathan.kailasanathan
2011-01-28  4:27     ` Larry Finger

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