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From: Peter Seiderer <ps.report@gmx.net>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v1 1/1] package/rtl8821au: add patch fixing sprintf error
Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2020 12:57:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200802125758.3ce2215d@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+h8R2oApXa_RjDPxNXK65S6SNZXgyXvBnEBUy3RuR9BZA=xNQ@mail.gmail.com>

Hello Christian,

On Sat, 1 Aug 2020 17:33:48 -0700, Christian Stewart <christian@paral.in> wrote:

> Hi Peter,
>
> On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 2:51 PM Christian Stewart <christian@paral.in> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Peter,
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Aug 1, 2020, 2:34 PM Peter Seiderer <ps.report@gmx.net> 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
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  reply	other threads:[~2020-08-02 10:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-01 20:37 [Buildroot] [PATCH v1 1/1] package/rtl8821au: add patch fixing sprintf error Christian Stewart
2020-08-01 21:17 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2020-08-01 21:34 ` Peter Seiderer
2020-08-01 21:40   ` Peter Seiderer
2020-08-01 21:43     ` Christian Stewart
2020-08-02 10:51       ` Peter Seiderer
2020-08-01 21:51   ` Christian Stewart
2020-08-02  0:33     ` Christian Stewart
2020-08-02 10:57       ` Peter Seiderer [this message]
2020-08-02 16:00         ` Christian Stewart
2020-10-25 10:00         ` Peter Seiderer

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