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From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: Jeff Chua <jeff.chua.linux@gmail.com>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, wlanfae@realtek.com
Subject: Re: r8712u cannot set essid
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 19:48:05 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DB61645.8010001@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=syavY0Tw-Ny9-QhU=_Ryrbmkhfw@mail.gmail.com>

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On 04/25/2011 07:21 PM, Jeff Chua wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 3:18 AM, Larry Finger<Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>  wrote:
>> Please send me the commands that you want to use, and I'll try to get r8712u
>> to support them.
>
> Larry,
>
> All I want is for my iPhone to connect to me notebook, and I use this
> command ...
>
> # iwconfig wlan0 mode ad-hoc essid "123"
>
> A little bit of good news is that I got adhoc to work 2 out of 100
> tries (with wpa_supplicant on another sreen, and the above iwconfig
> command). So, it's working "partially". Once it has an SSID, I could
> change it and it'll still work.

Please try the attached patch.

Larry

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Index: linux-2.6/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c
+++ linux-2.6/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_ioctl_linux.c
@@ -990,8 +990,6 @@ static int r8711_wx_set_wap(struct net_d
 	struct wlan_network *pnetwork = NULL;
 	enum NDIS_802_11_AUTHENTICATION_MODE	authmode;
 
-	if (padapter->bup == false)
-		return -1;
 	if (check_fwstate(pmlmepriv, _FW_UNDER_SURVEY) == true)
 		return -1;
 	if (check_fwstate(pmlmepriv, _FW_UNDER_LINKING) == true)

  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-26  0:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-25  2:16 r8712u cannot set essid Jeff Chua
2011-04-25  3:23 ` Larry Finger
2011-04-25  4:32   ` Jeff Chua
2011-04-25 11:14     ` Jeff Chua
2011-04-25 12:10       ` Jeff Chua
2011-04-25 19:18     ` Larry Finger
2011-04-26  0:21       ` Jeff Chua
2011-04-26  0:48         ` Larry Finger [this message]
2011-04-26  3:26           ` Jeff Chua
2011-04-26 15:32             ` Larry Finger
2011-04-26 16:24               ` Jeff Chua
2011-04-26 19:30                 ` Jeff Chua
2011-04-26 20:12                   ` Larry Finger
2011-04-27 15:45                     ` Jeff Chua

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