From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stanislav Komarov Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 19:14:13 +0400 Subject: [ath9k-devel] Why Realtek instead of ath9K or carl9170?? Message-ID: <51F7D845.1000902@gmail.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org Hi guys, I have an issue when trying to use TP-Link TL-WN821 as AP(Infrastructure Mode). When I plug device to USB port I see in dmesg: [ 223.959068] usb 2-3: new high-speed USB device number 4 using ehci-pci [ 224.074513] usb 2-3: New USB device found, idVendor=0bda, idProduct=8178 [ 224.074528] usb 2-3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 [ 224.074534] usb 2-3: Product: USB WLAN [ 224.074539] usb 2-3: Manufacturer: 802.11n [ 224.074549] usb 2-3: SerialNumber: 00e04c000001 [ 224.075802] rtl8192cu: Chip version 0x11 [ 224.119576] rtl8192cu: MAC address: a0:f3:c1:08:ba:a3 [ 224.119585] rtl8192cu: Board Type 0 [ 224.119793] rtlwifi: rx_max_size 15360, rx_urb_num 8, in_ep 1 [ 224.119856] rtl8192cu: Loading firmware rtlwifi/rtl8192cufw.bin [ 224.120198] ieee80211 phy2: Selected rate control algorithm 'rtl_rc' [ 224.121622] rtlwifi: wireless switch is on [ 224.222409] systemd-udevd[2045]: renamed network interface wlan0 to wlp0s29f7u3 lsusb says: Bus 002 Device 004: ID 0bda:8178 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8192CU 802.11n WLAN Adapter lsmod: ath9k_htc 65772 0 ath9k_common 13503 1 ath9k_htc ath9k_hw 417147 2 ath9k_common,ath9k_htc rtl8192cu 67684 0 rtlwifi 83065 1 rtl8192cu rtl8192c_common 46137 1 rtl8192cu rfcomm 68979 10 Checked ls /lib/firmware and yes,I have it by default ar3k ar5523.bin ar7010_1_1.fw ar7010.fw ar9170-1.fw ar9170-2.fw ar9170.fw ar9271.fw Why is it Realtek?????????? I need to use it with hostapd which doesn't support it as AP Thank you very much for your time -- *WBR,Stanislav Komarov * E-Mail: st.komaroff at gmail.com Skype: stkomaroff ICQ: 113048692 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.ath9k.org/pipermail/ath9k-devel/attachments/20130730/912ace6e/attachment.html