Am 23.03.23 um 18:12 schrieb Bitterblue Smith:
On 22/03/2023 19:18, Martin Kaistra wrote:
This series intends to bring AP mode support to the rtl8xxxu driver,
more specifically for the 8188f, because this is the HW I have.
The work is based on the vendor driver as I do not have access to
datasheets.
This is an RFC, so that there can be a discussion first before
potentially implementing support for the other chips in this driver, if
required.
Hi!
I ran into some problems while testing this.
First, a null pointer dereference in rtl8xxxu_config_filter() when
turning on the AP. priv->vif was NULL:
if (priv->vif->type != NL80211_IFTYPE_AP) {
I changed it like this:
if (priv->vif && priv->vif->type != NL80211_IFTYPE_AP) {
Then I was able to turn on the AP and connect my phone to it. However,
the system froze after a few seconds. I had `journalctl --follow`
running. The last thing printed before the system froze was the DHCP
stuff (discover, offer, request, ack). The phone said it was connected,
but speedtest.net didn't have time to load before the freeze.
Hi
I could reproduce a frozen system with my hostapd setup, though it
doesn't happen reliably and I don't have an error message when it happens.
What I can see on the other hand, are WARNING messages which happen
sometimes in include/net/mac80211.h:2936 (ieee80211_get_tx_rate()).
This might be unrelated, I am not sure.
Is this function even supposed to work in combination with
HAS_RATE_CONTROL set? Also, why are we putting rate into txdesc for all
packets (ie. also when USE_DRIVER_RATE is not set) when the firmware
sets the rate based on the rate_mask?
My system is a laptop with RTL8822CE internal wifi card connected to my
ISP's router. The connections are managed by NetworkManager 1.42.4-1,
which uses wpa_supplicant 2:2.10-8 and dnsmasq 2.89-1. The operating
system is Arch Linux running kernel 6.2.5-arch1-1.
I used Plasma's NetworkManager applet to create a new "Wi-Fi (shared)"
connection with mode "Access Point", band 2.4 GHz, channel 1, no
encryption, and "IPv4 is required for this connection".
Unrelated to anything, just out of curiosity, what brand/model is your
RTL8188FU?
