Thanks Larry, now it works again! Fabio On Sunday 21 December 2008, Larry Finger wrote: > Fabio Rossi wrote: > > I was using successfully the rtl8180 driver but after last git-pull the > > network interface (wlan0) is not anymore created. > > > > I have discovered the problem: there has been a change in mac80211, > > commit 3fc7826b95521e40cf53f63437a5fdcc24e54ac4. The problem is that the > > bit NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION is not set during the hardware initialization. > > > > I guess that the problem might be solved inserting the following line of > > code > > > > dev->wiphy->interface_modes = BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION); > > > > somewhere in rtl8180_dev.c but I don't know which is the right point to > > do so. > > Fabio, > > Does this patch fix it for you? > > Larry > > Index: wireless-testing/drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8180_dev.c > =================================================================== > --- wireless-testing.orig/drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8180_dev.c > +++ wireless-testing/drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8180_dev.c > @@ -898,6 +898,7 @@ static int __devinit rtl8180_probe(struc > dev->flags = IEEE80211_HW_HOST_BROADCAST_PS_BUFFERING | > IEEE80211_HW_RX_INCLUDES_FCS | > IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_UNSPEC; > + dev->wiphy->interface_modes = BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION); > dev->queues = 1; > dev->max_signal = 65; -- 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
