On 01/27/2011 07:31 AM, raghunathan.kailasanathan@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hi folks, > I have a USB dongle with realtek 8192SU wireless chipset and am using the 8712u linux driver. The driver from the Realtek web site is named 8712u, and the one in the kernel staging tree (2.6.37 and later) is called r8712u. Which one are you using? They are not the same. > Since this driver is not mac80211 compliant I am using iwconfig to change the mode to "master". Though this > command successfully changes the mode I am unable to connect to this AP from another station, even using > unsecured method. It does not even show up in the station scan list. Are there some other params I need to > set using iwconfig ? > > Or is the 8712u driver not supporting master mode "sufficiently" enough ?...in which case is some latest > driver available for this thing? Master mode with r8712u has not been tested. The driver I started with has a configuration parameter that enables "AP mode". I kept that in, but I do not know if it works. 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
