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From: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] Drivers for Realtek WLAN dongles
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 13:39:31 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140630103931.GF4425@tarshish> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140630121735.41fa221b@free-electrons.com>

Hi Thomas,

On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 12:17:35PM +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Jun 2014 11:35:34 +0200, Stephan Hoffmann wrote:
> > did anyone download and compile drivers from realtek's website using
> > buildroot?
> > 
> > While
> > http://www.armadeus.com/wiki/index.php?title=USB_to_WiFi_adapter#Chipset_RTL8188CUS
> > gives a recipe to do this by hand I need an integration in buildroot for
> > my current project.
> > 
> > I searched the web but did not find anything, but maybe someone has a
> > not yet published solution. If not I will start my own patchset for this.
> 
> Are you sure you need an out-of-tree driver for this? I see the
> mainline rtlwifi driver supports a number of rtl8188cus dongles. Which
> specific model do you have? Which USB vendor/product ID?

Some mainline Realtek WiFi drivers do not support AP mode properly, 
unfortunately. See 
http://lists.shmoo.com/pipermail/hostap/2014-June/030533.html. So there is a 
use case for out of tree drivers like https://github.com/robertalks/rt8192cu.

baruch

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-06-30 10:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-30  9:35 [Buildroot] Drivers for Realtek WLAN dongles Stephan Hoffmann
2014-06-30 10:17 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2014-06-30 10:39   ` Baruch Siach [this message]
2014-06-30 10:52   ` Stephan Hoffmann

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