Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2012 10:08:37 +0800
From: Ali Bahar <ali@internetdog.org>
To: dganic@bmail.ru
Cc: wlanfae@realtek.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Subject: Re: drivers realtek rtl8191su [rtl8712 ]
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Hi dganic,


On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 09:17:33PM +0300, dganic@bmail.ru wrote:
> Subject: drivers realtek rtl8191su [rtl8712 ]
> 
> Good day, https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/staging/rtl8712/TODO,
> there indicated that in a short time you make a "switch to use
> MAC80211" and as what about "nl80211" I want to do from wi fi card,
> access point, by means of hostapd, but in this implementation, the
> driver who is at the core, this is impossible, in which release of
> the kernel will be implemented this functionality the driver?

Yes, I was the one who had volunteered to try the implementation. But,
unfortunately, I can't work on this driver anymore; I stopped in
September. So, as far as I know, this is not going to happen anytime
soon.

regards,
ali


> 
> 
> A little more information:
> 
> [htpc@dga-htpc ~]$ lsmod
> Module Size Used by
> appletalk 26298 0
> ipx 20395 0
> p8022 1171 1 ipx
> psnap 1973 2 appletalk,ipx
> llc 3761 2 p8022,psnap
> p8023 1068 1 ipx
> ipv6 290983 16
> nvidia 11695959 40
> snd_hda_codec_hdmi 22092 4
> iTCO_wdt 12717 0
> snd_hda_intel 22122 1
> r8712u 169296 0
> iTCO_vendor_support 1929 1 iTCO_wdt
> snd_hda_codec 77927 2 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_
> intel
> joydev 9895 1
> usbhid 35256 0
> hid 81635 1 usbhid
> pcspkr 1819 0
> evdev 9530 4
> snd_hwdep 6325 1 snd_hda_codec
> i2c_i801 8187 0
> psmouse 55192 0
> intel_agp 10904 0
> intel_gtt 14423 1 intel_agp
> snd_pcm 73952 4 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
> r8169 42643 0
> mii 3995 1 r8169
> serio_raw 4294 0
> processor 24256 0
> snd_timer 19416 1 snd_pcm
> i2c_core 20133 2 nvidia,i2c_i801
> snd 57818 7 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_timer
> soundcore 6146 1 snd
> snd_page_alloc 7121 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
> button 4470 0
> ext4 370462 1
> mbcache 5817 1 ext4
> jbd2 71074 1 ext4
> crc16 1297 1 ext4
> sd_mod 28307 2
> uhci_hcd 23084 0
> ahci 21217 1
> libahci 18885 1 ahci
> libata 173297 2 ahci,libahci
> scsi_mod 131546 2 sd_mod,libata
> ehci_hcd 39543 0
> usbcore 142576 5 r8712u,usbhid,uhci_hcd,ehci_hcd
> 
> /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf:
> 
> interface=wlan0
> driver=nl80211
> logger_syslog=-1
> logger_syslog_level=2
> logger_stdout=-1
> logger_stdout_level=2
> dump_file=/tmp/hostapd.dump
> #ctrl_interface=/var/run/hostapd
> #ctrl_interface_group=0
> ssid=dganic-htpc
> country_code=RU
> hw_mode=g
> channel=11
> beacon_int=100
> dtim_period=2
> max_num_sta=255
> rts_threshold=2347
> fragm_threshold=2346
> macaddr_acl=0
> wpa=2
> wpa_passphrase=50177011aa
> wpa_pairwise=TKIP CCMP
> rsn_pairwise=CCMP
> 
> [htpc@dga-htpc ~]$ sudo hostapd -dd /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf
> Configuration file: /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf
> nl80211: 'nl80211' generic netlink not found
> nl80211 driver initialization failed.
> 
> Thank you in advance for your reply, I hope for your support, sorry
> for the very poor English.