I've foolishly gotten it into my head to try and get this thing to work as an access point: Bus 002 Device 006: ID 0bda:8176 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. On windows XP, it uses the driver named RTL8192cu One problem is that I have no idea what the relationship is between the mac80211 driver that hostapd apparently needs to use and the actual driver for the low level device, so I don't know how to guess if the 8192 driver ought to be playing nice with it. There is source code on realtek's web site for a linux driver which seems to work, and has lots of source code bits that speak of master mode and access point behavior, but hostapd doesn't seem to like it (or maybe I'm not using the right magic handshake). Meanwhile, there is also a usb 8192 driver in the linux staging tree which also contains code that talks about master mode, but it also seems not to work with hostapd (even after I add the usb ID to the table it contains). Can anyone point me in some direction that might provide some hints on getting this to work? Do I need extra stuff in the kernel that I'll missing on fedora 14 with the 2.6.35 kernel it has? _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
