From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Baruch Siach Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 13:39:31 +0300 Subject: [Buildroot] Drivers for Realtek WLAN dongles In-Reply-To: <20140630121735.41fa221b@free-electrons.com> References: <53B12F66.7010508@relinux.de> <20140630121735.41fa221b@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: <20140630103931.GF4425@tarshish> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net 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 -- http://baruch.siach.name/blog/ ~. .~ Tk Open Systems =}------------------------------------------------ooO--U--Ooo------------{= - baruch at tkos.co.il - tel: +972.2.679.5364, http://www.tkos.co.il -