On 07/27/2012 10:11 AM, Marco wrote:
Hi, I own an Alfa AWUS036H network adapter using the rtl8187 driver on a Debian box running kernel 3.5.0. I want to use it with hostapd, which apparently requires master mode to be enabled in the driver. The page http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/rtl8187 states: not working yet: AP/Master mode What means *yet*? Is it planned to add master mode support in the near future? Do you have other suggestions what I could do to get the driver to work together with hostap? Disclaimer: I am not an expert in those things. I set up the access point some years ago, then the network adapter started to function unreliably. I then replaced it with a different one (the abovementioned 036H) and didn't manage to get my setup running again.
In the case of the RTL8187L, which is the chip in your Alfa device, it means *never*. That chip only has a single hardware transmit queue and the work of getting the high-priority traffic, such as beacons, transmitted at the correct time would be much more than it would be worth.
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