[pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#825676: hostapd: no support for rtl871xdrv

[Boris Shtrasman]

Package: hostapd
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch upstream

Dear Maintainer,

It seems that hostapd is lacking support for rtl871xdrv (example RTL8188CUS) , few years ago Realtek released the code under GPLv2.

The attached patched is based on that code and it is taken from 
https://github.com/pritambaral/hostapd-rtl871xdrv.git


-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (901, 'unstable'), (900, 'testing'), (200, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.4.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=he_IL.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=he_IL.UTF-8 (charmap=locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
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# include this file from your own hostapd.conf

driver=rtl871xdrv
ieee80211n=1
hw_mode=g
device_name=RTL8192CU
manufacturer=Realtek