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Re: rtl8192cu: no beacon transmission in AP mode with Asus USB-N13

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On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 11:11 PM, coekbe <coekbe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I created an Access Point using hostapd and the following USB stick:
>
> ID 0b05:17ab ASUSTek Computer, Inc. USB-N13 802.11n Network Adapter
> (rev. B1) [Realtek RTL8192CU]
>
> The problem is that I cannot see any beacon frames in data captured
> from the air. I cannot see beacon frames in the hostapd created
> mon.wlan0 interface on the AP either.

Looks like rtlwifi, rtl8192cu driver code does not contain any calls
to ieee80211_beacon_get() or ieee80211_beacon_get_tim() (except in
pci.c) so I guess beacon frames are missing simply because that
functionality was never programmed. (Realtek vendor driver does
transmit beacon frames, though.)

Colin
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