2012-11-04 12:01:46

by Cliff McDiarmid

Subject: 8192su beta - trying to build

Hi

I'm trying to build this driver which I know is in beta. I'm using a relatively
new kernel (3.6.2). Do I need an older one perhaps, getting the following error?

/home/sources/wireless/8192su/rtl8192su-master/rtlwifi/core.c: In function
'rtl_op_tx':
/home/sources/wireless/8192su/rtl8192su-master/rtlwifi/core.c:168:50: error:
dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
/home/sources/wireless/8192su/rtl8192su-master/rtlwifi/core.c:169:44: error:
dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
/home/sources/wireless/8192su/rtl8192su-master/rtlwifi/core.c: In function
'rtl_op_set_key':
/home/sources/wireless/8192su/rtl8192su-master/rtlwifi/core.c:1011:17: error:
'IEEE80211_KEY_FLAG_SW_MGMT_TX' undeclared (first use in this function)
/home/sources/wireless/8192su/rtl8192su-master/rtlwifi/core.c:1011:17: note:
each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
/home/sources/wireless/8192su/rtl8192su-master/rtlwifi/core.c: At top level:
/home/sources/wireless/8192su/rtl8192su-master/rtlwifi/core.c:1196:2: warning:
initialization from incompatible pointer type


thanks for any advice

regards

Cliff

2012-11-04 12:25:10

by Christian Lamparter

Subject: Re: 8192su beta - trying to build

On Sunday 04 November 2012 13:01:33 Cliff McDiarmid wrote:
> I'm trying to build this driver which I know is in beta. I'm using a relatively
> new kernel (3.6.2). Do I need an older one perhaps, getting the following error?

No, due to the developer process you need something even newer.
For a full description you can visit our wiki, but here's just
the relevant part:
<http://linuxwireless.org/en/developers/process#wireless-testing.git>
"Developers should work off of this git tree [wireless-testing.git]
for all 802.11 development."

Note: While rtl8192su should no longer cause a crash when
unloaded, the firmware rate control still needs to be
figured out (apparently something is very different from
rtl8192se).

Regards,
Chr