Hi! Some general question + Wifi USB Realtek RTL8191S

[matzi]

In my wpa_cli status output there is no line like:

address=64:d1:xx:xx:xx

all the rest is equivalent.

[fvdw]

:scratch maybe your chinese dongle doesn't disclose its mac address for whatever reason.

Did you sent me the (linux) driver source of your dongle. I could try to compile it to see if that helps

--edit
this is the one I used for the kernel module (directly downloaded from realtek)
rtl8712_8188_8191_8192SU_usb_linux_v2.6.6.0.20120405
I needed patching to run with linux 3.9.5

[matzi]

We have been there on page 13. You already did it.

[fvdw]

I can look if there is a newer driver

[matzi]

Yes plaease. By the way let us double check wpa supplicant version. Mine is v0.6.9

[fvdw]

There is no newer driver on realtek website.

I used wpa_supplicant 2.0 in this case but I think it won't make a differnence

some more info

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root@nwsp2-lite:/ # iwlist scanning
<snip>
wlan0     Scan completed :
          Cell 01 - Address: 00:24:xxxxxxxx
                    ESSID:"name-of-wlan"
                    Protocol:IEEE 802.11bg
                    Mode:Master
                    Frequency:2.432 GHz (Channel 5)
                    Encryption key:on
                    Bit Rates:54 Mb/s
                    Extra:wpa_ie=dd1a0050f20101000050f20202000050f2020050f20401000050f202
                    IE: WPA Version 1
                        Group Cipher : TKIP
                        Pairwise Ciphers (2) : TKIP CCMP
                        Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
                    Extra:rsn_ie=30180100000fac020200000fac02000fac040100000fac020000
                    IE: IEEE 802.11i/WPA2 Version 1
                        Group Cipher : TKIP
                        Pairwise Ciphers (2) : TKIP CCMP
                        Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
                    Signal level=100/100


[fvdw]

I found this driver

rtl8712_8188_8191_8192SU_usb_linux_v7_0.20100628

Its an older one so to see I will see if that can be compiled

[matzi]

Switched to wpa_supplicant 2.0 . That solves the issue with the address line. It is now equivalent to yours showing the wlan0 MAC. Everything else unchanged.

[fvdw]

found this

RTL8192SU / RTL8712U firmwares

Since some people reported that not all firmwares
are compatible with all devices, we have to figure
out which is the most compatible, feature-rich and
bug-free of them all.

Currently, there are three different contenders:

- rtl8712u-oldest-but-good.bin
(Original firmware from 2010 - used by the r8712u
staging driver - Take this image if you don't
want to test)
From Vendor's rtl8712_8188_8191_8192SU_usb_linux_v7_0.20100831

- rtl8712u-linux-firmware-bad.bin
Firmware 2012-04-02 (Known to be bad?)
Taken from the linux-firmware.git
From rtl8188C_8192C_8192D_usb_linux_v3.4.2_3727.20120404


- rtl8712u-most-recent-v2.6.6-bad.bin
Firmware 2012-04-05 (04?) (Reported not to work with ASUS devices?)
From RTL819xSU_usb_linux_v2.6.6.0.20120405

Licence: Redistributable. See LICENCE.rtlwifi_firmware.txt for details.

These firmwares have to be placed into

/lib/firmware/rtlwifi/

the driver will only load the firmware which is named "rtl8712u.bin",
so either rename one of these or set a symlink.

File: rtlwifi/rtl8712u.bin

attached the oldest version, although i think the current kernel module doesn't use it
should be in /lib/firmware/rtlwifi
it must have name rtl8712u.bin so rename it.

ps I compiles the r92su kernel module that but it seems not to support my dongle

You can try it just load it as module instead of 8712u.ko

[matzi]

Still the same. I will do some checks with a different router.