From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: Fabio Rossi <rossi.f@inwind.it>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linville@tuxdriver.com,
johannes@sipsolutions.net
Subject: Re: rtl8180: the network interface is not anymore created
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 12:04:30 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <494E852E.4070002@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200812211710.23846.rossi.f@inwind.it>
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Fabio Rossi wrote:
> I was using successfully the rtl8180 driver but after last git-pull the
> network interface (wlan0) is not anymore created.
>
> I have discovered the problem: there has been a change in mac80211, commit
> 3fc7826b95521e40cf53f63437a5fdcc24e54ac4. The problem is that the bit
> NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION is not set during the hardware initialization.
>
> I guess that the problem might be solved inserting the following line of code
>
> dev->wiphy->interface_modes = BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION);
>
> somewhere in rtl8180_dev.c but I don't know which is the right point to do so.
Fabio,
Does this patch fix it for you?
Larry
Index: wireless-testing/drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8180_dev.c
===================================================================
--- wireless-testing.orig/drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8180_dev.c
+++ wireless-testing/drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8180_dev.c
@@ -898,6 +898,7 @@ static int __devinit rtl8180_probe(struc
dev->flags = IEEE80211_HW_HOST_BROADCAST_PS_BUFFERING |
IEEE80211_HW_RX_INCLUDES_FCS |
IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_UNSPEC;
+ dev->wiphy->interface_modes = BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION);
dev->queues = 1;
dev->max_signal = 65;
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Index: wireless-testing/drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8180_dev.c
===================================================================
--- wireless-testing.orig/drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8180_dev.c
+++ wireless-testing/drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8180_dev.c
@@ -898,6 +898,7 @@ static int __devinit rtl8180_probe(struc
dev->flags = IEEE80211_HW_HOST_BROADCAST_PS_BUFFERING |
IEEE80211_HW_RX_INCLUDES_FCS |
IEEE80211_HW_SIGNAL_UNSPEC;
+ dev->wiphy->interface_modes = BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION);
dev->queues = 1;
dev->max_signal = 65;
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-21 18:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-21 16:10 rtl8180: the network interface is not anymore created Fabio Rossi
2008-12-21 18:04 ` Larry Finger [this message]
2008-12-21 21:14 ` Piter PUNK
2008-12-22 8:52 ` Fabio Rossi
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