linux-kernel - Re: r8712u cannot set essid

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Message-ID: <4DB61645.8010001@lwfinger.net>
Date:	Mon, 25 Apr 2011 19:48:05 -0500
From:	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>
To:	Jeff Chua <jeff.chua.linux@...il.com>
CC:	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, wlanfae@...ltek.com
Subject: Re: r8712u cannot set essid

On 04/25/2011 07:21 PM, Jeff Chua wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 3:18 AM, Larry Finger<Larry.Finger@...inger.net>  wrote:
>> Please send me the commands that you want to use, and I'll try to get r8712u
>> to support them.
>
> Larry,
>
> All I want is for my iPhone to connect to me notebook, and I use this
> command ...
>
> # iwconfig wlan0 mode ad-hoc essid "123"
>
> A little bit of good news is that I got adhoc to work 2 out of 100
> tries (with wpa_supplicant on another sreen, and the above iwconfig
> command). So, it's working "partially". Once it has an SSID, I could
> change it and it'll still work.

Please try the attached patch.

Larry

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