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 I've used standard instructions from the Handbook (never dealt with Wifi devices before) and found no problems with one exception: "ifconfig wlan0 scan" does not work but "ifconfig wlan0 list scan" does. How-To-Repeat: Try to enable hostap/ad-hoc modes with if_urtw, it won't.
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On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 12:18:55AM +0600, Eugene Grosbein wrote: > > >Number: 153454 > >Category: kern > >Synopsis: [patch] [wlan] [urtw] Support ad-hoc and hostap modes in if_urtw(4) > >Confidential: no > >Severity: non-critical > >Priority: low > >Responsible: freebsd-bugs > >State: open > >Quarter: > >Keywords: > >Date-Required: > >Class: change-request > >Submitter-Id: current-users > >Arrival-Date: Sun Dec 26 18:40:08 UTC 2010 > >Closed-Date: > >Last-Modified: > >Originator: Eugene Grosbein > >Release: FreeBSD 8.2-PRERELEASE i386 > >Organization: > RDTC JSC > >Environment: > System: FreeBSD grosbein.pp.ru 8.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 8.2-PRERELEASE #17: Sat Dec 11 23:58:55 NOVT 2010 root@grosbein.pp.ru:/usr/local/obj/usr/local/src/sys/DADV i386 > > >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 > > I've used standard instructions from the Handbook (never dealt > with Wifi devices before) and found no problems with one exception: > > "ifconfig wlan0 scan" does not work but "ifconfig wlan0 list scan" does. > > >How-To-Repeat: > > Try to enable hostap/ad-hoc modes with if_urtw, it won't. > > >Fix: > > --- sys/dev/usb/wlan/if_urtw.c.orig 2010-12-26 21:04:47.000000000 +0600 > +++ sys/dev/usb/wlan/if_urtw.c 2010-12-26 21:05:32.000000000 +0600 > @@ -880,6 +880,8 @@ > ic->ic_caps = > IEEE80211_C_STA | /* station mode */ > IEEE80211_C_MONITOR | /* monitor mode supported */ > + IEEE80211_C_IBSS | /* ad-hoc mode supported */ > + IEEE80211_C_HOSTAP | /* access point mode supported */ > IEEE80211_C_TXPMGT | /* tx power management */ > IEEE80211_C_SHPREAMBLE | /* short preamble supported */ > IEEE80211_C_SHSLOT | /* short slot time supported */ > --- share/man/man4/urtw.4.orig 2010-12-27 00:02:10.000000000 +0600 > +++ share/man/man4/urtw.4 2010-12-27 00:06:40.000000000 +0600 > @@ -56,7 +56,9 @@ > .Pp > .Nm > supports > -.Cm station > +.Cm station , > +.Cm adhoc , > +.Cm hostap , > and > .Cm monitor > mode operation. Hello Eugene, 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. regards, Weongyo Jeong
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
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The hardware did not work reliably with the patch. Closing due to lack of interest.