From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Seiderer Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2020 12:57:58 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v1 1/1] package/rtl8821au: add patch fixing sprintf error In-Reply-To: References: <20200801203749.424827-1-christian@paral.in> <20200801233410.6ec574ce@gmx.net> Message-ID: <20200802125758.3ce2215d@gmx.net> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello Christian, On Sat, 1 Aug 2020 17:33:48 -0700, Christian Stewart wrote: > Hi Peter, > > On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 2:51 PM Christian Stewart wrote: > > > > Hi Peter, > > > > > > On Sat, Aug 1, 2020, 2:34 PM Peter Seiderer wrote: > >> > >> maybe its worth to try some other 'upstream' sources, e.g. as > >> openSUSE [4] does (mentioning previous [5] and [6]), or the first > >> google search result [7] (did not find the time to dig into the > >> different repositories to find out which one is the best)... > > > > > > We've been through a number of these over the years. I would not recommend switching to another unless there's a specific reason. As far as I know the current configuration/upstream works fine with USB RTL cards. Did only a quick test some weeks ago, trying the IBSS mode and to get wifibroadcast to work (both did not work out as far as I remember, so switched to some other cards)... > > See: https://github.com/paralin/buildroot/commit/af8d30846e71e378fdcdb632bbbbfe0aaf7bb669 > Will take a look at it (if I find some spare time ;-)) and try it out.... Regards, Peter > Just out of curiosity I made a patch switching to the aircrack fork, > but there were some errors at the install step, for example: > > depmod: WARNING: /target/lib/modules/4.14.180/extra/88XXau.ko needs > unknown symbol cfg80211_unlink_bss > depmod: WARNING: /target/lib/modules/4.14.180/extra/88XXau.ko needs > unknown symbol ieee80211 > > Even though the CFG80211 options are enabled in the kernel, and the > build passes with the old fork. > > Maybe there are some path issues going on there. > > Looks like the aircrack fork may have better support for packet injection? > > Best, > Christian > _______________________________________________ > buildroot mailing list > buildroot at busybox.net > http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/buildroot