Bug#645055: realtek 8188CE ad-hoc mode not supported

2011-10-12 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2011-10-12 at 01:29 -0400, Antoine Beaupré wrote: Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.39-3~bpo60+1 Severity: normal Tags: upstream Hi, The documentation for the rtl8192ce driver explicitely mentions that it supports ad-hoc mode, yet, on the rtl8188CE card I have here (which is

Bug#645055: realtek 8188CE ad-hoc mode not supported

2011-10-12 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 11:20:31AM -0400, Antoine Beaupré wrote: On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 14:08:32 +0100, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: Can you create an ad-hoc interface like this: iw dev wlan0 interface add wlan1 type adhoc (you'll need the iw package). Interesting -

Bug#645055: realtek 8188CE ad-hoc mode not supported

2011-10-12 Thread Antoine Beaupré
On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 14:08:32 +0100, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: Can you create an ad-hoc interface like this: iw dev wlan0 interface add wlan1 type adhoc (you'll need the iw package). Interesting - this works. Didn't know of the iw tool. But this creates a separate

Bug#645055: realtek 8188CE ad-hoc mode not supported

2011-10-12 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2011-10-12 at 17:01 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 11:20:31AM -0400, Antoine Beaupré wrote: On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 14:08:32 +0100, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: Can you create an ad-hoc interface like this: iw dev wlan0 interface add wlan1

Bug#645055: realtek 8188CE ad-hoc mode not supported

2011-10-12 Thread Antoine Beaupré
On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 00:24:12 +0100, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: I looked a little further and saw that nl80211 does support changing interface type (mode). But this driver (rtl8192ce) only supports creating new interfaces, not changing their type. Should mac80211 drivers

Bug#645055: realtek 8188CE ad-hoc mode not supported

2011-10-12 Thread Larry Finger
On 10/12/2011 06:24 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: I looked a little further and saw that nl80211 does support changing interface type (mode). But this driver (rtl8192ce) only supports creating new interfaces, not changing their type. Should mac80211 drivers generally support changing interface type

Bug#645055: realtek 8188CE ad-hoc mode not supported

2011-10-12 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2011-10-12 at 21:10 -0500, Larry Finger wrote: On 10/12/2011 06:24 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: I looked a little further and saw that nl80211 does support changing interface type (mode). But this driver (rtl8192ce) only supports creating new interfaces, not changing their type.

Bug#645055: realtek 8188CE ad-hoc mode not supported

2011-10-12 Thread Antoine Beaupré
On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 03:25:17 +0100, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: but the iw interface changes the mode for an existing interface when using rtl8192ce. BTW, I added a new iface because I did not want to interrupt my internat connection. Hmm. Maybe the

Bug#645055: realtek 8188CE ad-hoc mode not supported

2011-10-11 Thread Antoine Beaupré
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.39-3~bpo60+1 Severity: normal Tags: upstream Hi, The documentation for the rtl8192ce driver explicitely mentions that it supports ad-hoc mode, yet, on the rtl8188CE card I have here (which is advertised as supported both by the upstream driver and the driver in