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#1 2014-03-02 18:19:31
- delta24
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Cannot find Wifi driver in use
Hi! I am creating a wifi-hotspot using Create_ap script https://github.com/oblique/create_ap. Strangely I cannot get it working. I use broadcom-wl from the AUR https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/broadcom-wl/ and I am passing --driver args with 'wl'. Please help!
Thanks!
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#2 2014-03-02 19:17:00
- ewaller
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Re: Cannot find Wifi driver in use
I use broadcom-wl from the AUR
As a sanity check, can you prove it? What appears in the output of lsmod ?
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#3 2014-03-02 20:07:28
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Re: Cannot find Wifi driver in use
Drivers are generally part of two categories: nl80211, wext. That's what you use with the --driver switch of create_ap. broadcom-wl is a wext driver. However, it does *not* support AP mode. Not even brcmsmac does. Of the broadcom drivers, only b43 does. So unless your specific chipset is supported by b43, you're out of luck. You'll have to use ad-hoc mode.
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#4 2014-03-02 20:17:17
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Re: Cannot find Wifi driver in use
Drivers are generally part of two categories: nl80211, wext. That's what you use with the --driver switch of create_ap. broadcom-wl is a wext driver. However, it does *not* support AP mode. Not even brcmsmac does. Of the broadcom drivers, only b43 does. So unless your specific chipset is supported by b43, you're out of luck. You'll have to use ad-hoc mode.
Oh, Good answer! I'll remember that one.
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#5 2014-03-03 01:51:01
- delta24
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Re: Cannot find Wifi driver in use
Here is the lsmod output: http://pastebin.com/xXsEwEhp
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#6 2014-03-03 01:54:44
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Re: Cannot find Wifi driver in use
Thnx Gusar! I think broadcom-wl is the proprietary driver for Broadcom chipsets BCM43XX but the b43 is the opensource ''reverse-engineered'' driver. Well thanks for the quick reply!
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#7 2014-03-03 02:11:43
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Re: Cannot find Wifi driver in use
Yes you are indeed using the wl driver. But, here is a question: if the b43 driver is 'Reversed-engineered", why would it have capabilities (as asserted by Gusar) have capabilities not provided by the proprietary solutions?
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