Return-path: Received: from smtp-out110.alice.it ([85.37.17.110]:3141 "EHLO smtp-out110.alice.it" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757805Ab0EDReH (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 May 2010 13:34:07 -0400 Subject: Re: [Fwd: USB AP card and/or rt2870 issue] From: GNUtoo To: Ivo Van Doorn Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: <1272986923.2486.45.camel@gnutoo-desktop> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Tue, 04 May 2010 19:33:51 +0200 Message-ID: <1272994431.2447.0.camel@gnutoo-desktop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 17:32 +0200, Ivo Van Doorn wrote: > On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 5:28 PM, GNUtoo 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.