Re: [PATCH] staging: r8712u: Fix driver to support ad-hoc mode

[clemens fischer <ino-news@spotteswoode.dnsalias.org>]

> clemens fischer:

> > Jeff Chua:
>
> > On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 6:25 AM, clemens fischer
> > <ino-news@spotteswoode.dnsalias.org> wrote:
> > > whereas "r8712u" has only DHCP offers in the logs but no ACKs.
> >
> > Are you saying you're seeing dhcpd being offered in the log? Please
> > post the log from the time your mobile starts up the r8712u.
>
> Presently I cannot reproduce this peculiar situation.  The win-CE
> device provides next to nothing regarding helpful logs, but I know
> that it said "connected" at various occasions without any link being
> active.  Also, it seems DHCP leases are not verified, instead the
> remaining lease time being taken for granted.

Whatever I did late in the past night: sleeping ten hours helped a lot!

I can now confirm that "r8712u" works in Ad-hoc mode using
"wpa_supplicant(8)", it gets its IP from DHCP, connects everywhere and
lets me get spam and all that.

I have a couple of fancy scripts overseeing things, much less intrusive
than network-managers, but I disabled parts of them and did everything
manually.

In the end it may well have been the windows-mobile device hanging on to
its (dead) DHCP lease, but without that mobiles logs I won't know.

I still wish "r8712u" would let me use wireless-tools/iwconfig, but
I can live with "wpa_supplicant(8)".

Thanks for your effort, guys!


regards, clemens