Re: Tr : Tr : Can't make RTL8188CE work with hostapd (rtl8192ce)

[Xavier de Almeida <xavierdealmeida@yahoo.fr>]

Hi Larry,

I am using hostapd v0.7.3 but I did not install the bleeding-edge compat-wireless drivers.

What I noticed is that your script refers to module se while I have a ce. (I am not sure if this can impact or explain the differences between your setup and mine).

When I download the drivers from http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Download#Where_to_download_bleeding_edge, I got this file "compat-wireless-2.6.tar.bz2" which contains maybe a too old version compat-wireless-2012-05-10.

Should I install this version?
If I install kernel 3.5.0, will I still need to install the compat-wireless drivers?

Thanks
XabiX


> I finally finished the bug bisection that I was doing and set up an RTL8188CE 
> with my script on wireless-testing 3.5.0, which is the same wireless code as you 
> 
> will get with the bleeding-edge compat-wireless. BTW, that is the wireless code 
> that will be in 3.6.0 in about 3 months. When I started my script, I got the 
> following:
> 
> finger@larrylap:~> sudo ./control_ap start wlan0 eth0
> Starting AP mode for wlan0 at address 192.168.0.1
> iptables: No chain/target/match by that name.
> Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Server 4.2.3-P2
> Copyright 2004-2012 Internet Systems Consortium.
> All rights reserved.
> For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/
> Not searching LDAP since ldap-server, ldap-port and ldap-base-dn were not 
> specified in the config file
> Wrote 1 leases to leases file.
> Listening on LPF/wlan0/1c:65:9d:15:c2:bd/192.168.0.0/24
> Sending on   LPF/wlan0/1c:65:9d:15:c2:bd/192.168.0.0/24
> Sending on   Socket/fallback/fallback-net
> Configuration file: /root/hostapd.conf
> finger@larrylap:~>
> 
> I was able to associate and authenticate with this new AP and connect through it 
> 
> to the Internet. Obviously this kernel does not have one of the iptables 
> modules, but otherwise all is well.
> 
> What version of hostapd are you using? Mine is 1.0.
> 
> You need to use compat-wireless and make certain that hostapd is new enough. I 
> think 0.7.3 would be OK.
> 
> Larry
>