ok, thank's very much! Now the Ralink Wifi chip works pretty fine with
netd and some changes to SoftapController to support hostapd :-)

On 5 Aug., 15:34, Irfan Sheriff <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey Daniel,
>
> and Android's netd daemon is also not able to achieve this. The
>
> > SoftapController uses the private functions of the Broadcom driver
> > which are not supported by our driver.
>
> > Yeah, the  current code is pretty broadcom specific. Going forward, we
>
> will be using hostapd to
> provide more generic driver support.
>
> > Now, my questions are where does Android do all the EAP Server and
> > WPA
> > Authenticator stuff? Is it done in native code or in java? Where can
> > I
> > find this code? Or is this entirely done by the Broadcom AP Wifi-
> > Firmware?
>
> > There is no EAP support for soft ap, but the WPA authentication happens in
>
> the broadcom firmware.
>
> The way you could go about porting is by hooking the java APIs to netd go
> through hostapd.
>
>
>
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