The following reply was made to PR kern/153454; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Eugene Grosbein <eu...@grosbein.pp.ru> To: bug-follo...@freebsd.org Cc: weongyo.je...@gmail.com Subject: Re: kern/153454: [patch] [wlan] [urtw] Support ad-hoc and hostap modes in if_urtw(4) Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 02:21:43 +0600 On 19.01.2011 01:16, Weongyo Jeong wrote: > On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 12:18:55AM +0600, Eugene Grosbein wrote: >>> Description: >> >> Currently, if_urtw(4) driver for Realtek wireless NICs >> supports only station and monitor modes. >> >> I have a notebook with embedded USB wireless NIC supported with >> this driver and was able to successfully setup it in ad-hoc mode >> and in hostap mode (with and without hostapd) and connect >> my Nokia E72 smartphone to the Internet over wifi using this notebook >> after applying the following patch to the driver. >> >> usbconfig shows me: >> >> ugen7.2: <product 0x8189 vendor 0x0bda> at usbus7, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=HIGH >> (480Mbps) pwr=ON > IMHO it's not easy to apply your patch to CURRENT directly without > additional patches. When I wrote urtw(4) it based on realtek's linux > driver and at that moment it didn't support adhoc and hostap modes. Not > sure it's working on other chipsets though I don't know what you're > using. I've found its name by vendor/product id: Realtek RTL8187B. Eugene Grosbein _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
