I've been digging up more information and getting more confused, so I've written up my entire experience here: http://home.comcast.net/~tomhorsley/hardware/rtl8192cu/rtl8192cu.html I can get this thing to work fine to talk to an access point, but I can't get hostapd to configure it as an access point (though the realtek software on Windows XP can make it run as an access point). _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel