2010-05-04 15:28:50

by Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli

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Subject: [Fwd: USB AP card and/or rt2870 issue]

hi, I sent the following mail(attached) to the hostapd mailing list,but
Now I think It's a driver issue.
Is it possible to make an access point with a rt2870 card.
Does the driver support it?
I don't have much hope for now as it is a staging driver...and it
displayed a warning about that in dmesg...

Denis.


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2010-05-04 17:34:07

by Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli

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Subject: Re: [Fwd: USB AP card and/or rt2870 issue]

On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 17:32 +0200, Ivo Van Doorn wrote:
> On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 5:28 PM, GNUtoo <[email protected]> wrote:
> > hi, I sent the following mail(attached) to the hostapd mailing list,but
> > Now I think It's a driver issue.
> > Is it possible to make an access point with a rt2870 card.
> > Does the driver support it?
> > I don't have much hope for now as it is a staging driver...and it
> > displayed a warning about that in dmesg...
>
> You could try compat-wireless and the rt2800usb driver.
> That one actually does have Master mode support, but doesn't work
> on all cards yet. rt2800usb is also found in the main kernel tree, but
> using compat-wireless will give you the most recent version with
> _many_ fixes applied to it. :)
I tried that,
hostapd put the card in master mode
unfortunately once in master mode,impossible to find the essid when
scanning.

Denis.



2010-05-04 15:32:04

by Ivo Van Doorn

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Subject: Re: [Fwd: USB AP card and/or rt2870 issue]

On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 5:28 PM, GNUtoo <[email protected]> wrote:
> hi, I sent the following mail(attached) to the hostapd mailing list,but
> Now I think It's a driver issue.
> Is it possible to make an access point with a rt2870 card.
> Does the driver support it?
> I don't have much hope for now as it is a staging driver...and it
> displayed a warning about that in dmesg...

You could try compat-wireless and the rt2800usb driver.
That one actually does have Master mode support, but doesn't work
on all cards yet. rt2800usb is also found in the main kernel tree, but
using compat-wireless will give you the most recent version with
_many_ fixes applied to it. :)

Ivo