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Fri, 17 Jul 2026 01:02:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Mehmet Fide To: =?UTF-8?q?Georg=20M=C3=BCller?= Cc: Jes.Sorensen@gmail.com, rtl8821cerfe2@gmail.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3 0/4] wifi: rtl8xxxu: implement AP mode for 8188EU Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2026 10:02:08 +0200 Message-ID: <20260717080208.3270786-1-mehmet.fide@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.54.0 In-Reply-To: <20260313131849.3148013-1-georgmueller@gmx.net> References: <20260313131849.3148013-1-georgmueller@gmx.net> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hi Georg, Is there any progress on this series since v3? We are very interested in seeing AP mode land for the 8188EU and can offer testing and debugging help. Our situation: we ship embedded ARM devices (i.MX/Vybrid based) that use the Edimax EW-7811Un V2 (USB 7392:b811, RTL8188EU) as a WiFi AP dongle with hostapd. On our older kernel we run the out-of-tree vendor rtl8188eu driver, where multi-client AP mode works reliably with its per-MACID rate adaptation. On recent kernels we had to drop this dongle because rtl8xxxu has no AP support for this chip, so your series is exactly what we are missing. What we can offer: - Testing on the exact hardware (EW-7811Un V2), both single and multi-client scenarios, with iOS/Windows/Linux clients. - A/B comparison against the working vendor driver on the same board (register-level or behavioral differences, e.g. beacon/rsvd page setup, RA behavior), which may help pinpoint why clients fail to associate in your setup. - Over-the-air sniffer captures and hostapd/driver debug logs from both drivers. If you share your current WIP branch (or v4 draft) and describe how the connection failure manifests on your side (no auth response? assoc timeout? works open but fails WPA2?), we can try to reproduce it here and compare against the vendor driver behavior. Happy to provide Tested-by tags once it works. Best regards, Mehmet Fide Screening Eagle Technologies