Return-path: Received: from mail-bw0-f217.google.com ([209.85.218.217]:33414 "EHLO mail-bw0-f217.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753102Ab0EDPcE (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 May 2010 11:32:04 -0400 Received: by bwz9 with SMTP id 9so2277008bwz.29 for ; Tue, 04 May 2010 08:32:01 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1272986923.2486.45.camel@gnutoo-desktop> References: <1272986923.2486.45.camel@gnutoo-desktop> Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 17:32:00 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [Fwd: USB AP card and/or rt2870 issue] From: Ivo Van Doorn To: GNUtoo Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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. :) Ivo