From: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
To: Richard =?utf-8?q?R=C3=B6jfors?= <richard.rojfors@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: rtl8192cu in AP mode.
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 19:30:20 +0100
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
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On Thursday, December 13, 2012 12:45:56 AM Richard Röjfors wrote:
> I've been playing with an rtl8192 the last days, I want it to act as an
> access point. It's connected to an ARM9 box.
> 
> I'm using the latest compat-wireless, with some additional patches for
> beacon support.
> 
> My hostapd conf looks like this:
> interface=wlan0
> ssid=Test
> driver=nl80211
> hw_mode=b
> channel=6
> dtim_period=1
> 
> It almost works. Running hostapd and the networks shows up for my other
> machine, which can connect to the network.
> 
> I also get dhcp-requests through and corresponding dhcp responses. But
> then the oddness starts. ARP requests sent from the client is received
> on the AP side, the IP stack returns an ARP response, and I see it
> beeing sent by _rtl_submit_tx_urb and usb_submit_urb returns 0. But
> nothing is received on the other end.
> Sometimes, very rarely a response can get through, maybe 1 of 100 or so,
> or even less.

What's your client? Does it switch to power save mode after DHCP response
and is it an 11n client as well [same device? different device/driver -
yes I know you haven't enabled 11n, but still.]?

Regards,
	Chr