Good day to all, Thank you Larry, lsusb gives the following output: Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8188CUS 802.11n WLAN Adapter. There is some problem with wpa_supplicant using nl80211 with this wi-fi dongle. Folks say that WEXT dirver works fine but I can not figure out how to remove usage on nl80211 completely... 03.08.2014, 20:15, "Larry Finger" <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: > On 08/03/2014 06:25 AM, Андреев Сергей wrote: >> Hello, >> A lot of folks experience problems with wpa_supplicant using nl80211 driver - tha does not work. >> The particular problem is experienced on raspberry pi with wi-fi adapter on Realtek 8188 chipset. >> The syslog shows the following lines: >> wpa_supplicant[1118]: nl80211: 'nl80211' generic netlink not found >> raspbmc wpa_supplicant[1118]: Failed to initialize driver 'nl80211' >> raspbmc wpa_supplicant[1118]: rfkill: Cannot open RFKILL control device >> >> I have tired to modify /etc/wpa_suppicant/functions.sh and remove nl80211 completely from code and leave only wext driver but that does not work. >> Would appreciate any ideas what the problem could be. >> >> OS version: raspbian 3.12.21 >> >> WPA supplicant version: 1.0-3 > > What exactly do you mean by an 8188 chip? There are RTL8188EE, RTL8188CE, and > RTL8188EU chips? You likely mean the last one, as the first two PCI chips have > mac80211 drivers. > > If you want to use nl80211/cfg80211 commands with driver r8188eu, you will need > to add the necessary code for that driver to support that API. Modifying the > supplicant is probably not the way to go. > > On my x86_64 system, the standard supplicant works with NetworkManager and r8188eu. > > Larry -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
