From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: kc@cobradevil.org
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: rtl8192cu sometimes it can authenticate to ap
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2011 11:37:34 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E41624E.3010904@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <532595cb4d5ef910de54a4736ba76185@cobradevil.org>
On 08/09/2011 10:12 AM, kc@cobradevil.org wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> not sure what is happening but so far i have the following results:
> i downloaded the latest bleeding edge wireless from
> http://wireless.kernel.org/download/compat-wireless-2.6/compat-wireless-2.6.tar.bz2
> I installed kernel headers and build-essentials end run:
> ./scripts/driver-select rtlwifi
> make && make install
>
> i downloaded the firmware from
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/linux-firmware.git
>
> Running on Ubuntu maverick kernel 2.6.35-30 update 56 i get sometimes an
> authenticated message when running wpa_supplicant -Dnl80211 -c
> /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -i wlan0 but most times it will timeout
> Running on Ubuntu natty kernel 2.6.38-10 update 46 i always get the
> authenticated message when running wpa_supplicant -Dnl80211 -c
> /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -i wlan0
>
> only when using dhcp request on two accespoint i get different results on the
> natty driver but that has todo with:
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38012 when applied i can connect two
> both accespoints.
>
> Any ideas why it does not work on the maverick kernel?
How does it work at all with a 2.6.38 kernel? Driver rtl8192cu was not added to
the kernel until 2.6 39.
> Also when stopping the wpa_supplicant with ctrl+c and restart i first have to
> replug the device before it tries todo anything with the card.
What info is in the dmesg output in this case?
To debug the authentication case, run wpa_supplicant with the "-ddd" and "-f
wpa_supplicant.log" switches. That way you will get a log of what is going wrong.
Larry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-09 16:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-09 9:16 rtl8192cu sometimes it can authenticate to ap kc
2011-08-09 11:07 ` kc
2011-08-09 15:12 ` kc
2011-08-09 16:37 ` Larry Finger [this message]
2011-08-09 19:27 ` william
[not found] ` <d3faeaf2e881a324b0ad3102c10e6131@cobradevil.org>
2011-08-10 14:57 ` Larry Finger
2011-08-11 14:23 ` kc
2011-08-11 14:37 ` Larry Finger
2011-08-11 14:42 ` kc
2011-08-11 15:59 ` Larry Finger
2011-08-24 18:35 ` william
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