kern/153454: [patch] [wlan] [urtw] Support ad-hoc and hostap modes in if_urtw(4)

[Eugene Grosbein]

The following reply was made to PR kern/153454; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Eugene Grosbein <eugen at grosbein.pp.ru>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.ORG
Cc: weongyo.jeong at 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