Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 20:40:07 GMT From: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.pp.ru> To: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/153454: [patch] [wlan] [urtw] Support ad-hoc and hostap modes in if_urtw(4) Message-ID: <201101182040.p0IKe73b042570@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR kern/153454; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.pp.ru> To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: weongyo.jeong@gmail.com Subject: Re: kern/153454: [patch] [wlan] [urtw] Support ad-hoc and hostap modes in if_urtw(4) Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 02:21:43 +0600 On 19.01.2011 01:16, Weongyo Jeong wrote: > On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 12:18:55AM +0600, Eugene Grosbein wrote: >>> Description: >> >> Currently, if_urtw(4) driver for Realtek wireless NICs >> supports only station and monitor modes. >> >> I have a notebook with embedded USB wireless NIC supported with >> this driver and was able to successfully setup it in ad-hoc mode >> and in hostap mode (with and without hostapd) and connect >> my Nokia E72 smartphone to the Internet over wifi using this notebook >> after applying the following patch to the driver. >> >> usbconfig shows me: >> >> ugen7.2: <product 0x8189 vendor 0x0bda> at usbus7, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=HIGH (480Mbps) pwr=ON > IMHO it's not easy to apply your patch to CURRENT directly without > additional patches. When I wrote urtw(4) it based on realtek's linux > driver and at that moment it didn't support adhoc and hostap modes. Not > sure it's working on other chipsets though I don't know what you're > using. I've found its name by vendor/product id: Realtek RTL8187B. Eugene Grosbein
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