From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: Tom Horsley <horsley1953@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: r8192cu AP mode?
Date: Fri, 06 May 2011 09:59:55 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DC40CEB.5010107@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110506081356.08ac93a8@tomh>
On 05/06/2011 07:13 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> I recently got a cheap usb wi-fi dongle I would love to get
> working as an access point. I see the driver table on
> the linux wireless website has question marks on most
> of the columns in the row for the r8192cu. Anything I
> can do to help fill in "yes" in those columns?
>
> Here's my experience and findings so far:
>
> http://home.comcast.net/~tomhorsley/hardware/rtl8192cu/rtl8192cu.html
>
> I'm currently working on fedora 14 with the 2.6.35
> kernel fedora ships. Might I have more luck with a
> later kernel.org kernel?
You don't necessarily need a newer kernel, just install the compat-wireless
package. I'm not a Fedora user, so I don't know the exact details, but I'm
reasonably certain one exists. If not, you can always get the compat-wireless
sources from http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Download.
The Linux driver for this chip is rtl8192cu and it became part of the mainline
kernel with 2.6.39, which is the current mainline kernel and at 2.6.39-rc6. As
it is not yet "stable", you might not want to run it, but the package noted
above will have the same code for this device.
Larry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-06 15:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-06 12:13 r8192cu AP mode? Tom Horsley
2011-05-06 13:18 ` Juan Carlos Garza
2011-05-06 14:59 ` Larry Finger [this message]
2011-05-06 16:35 ` Tom Horsley
2011-05-06 17:19 ` Larry Finger
2011-05-06 17:16 ` Tom Horsley
2011-05-06 17:31 ` Larry Finger
2011-05-06 18:01 ` Tom Horsley
2011-05-07 20:01 ` Tom Horsley
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