Re: r8712u cannot set essid

[Larry Finger]

On 04/25/2011 07:21 PM, Jeff Chua wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 3:18 AM, Larry Finger<Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>  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
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)