[Buildroot] [PATCH v1 1/1] package/rtl8821au: add patch fixing sprintf error

Peter Seiderer ps.report at gmx.net
Sun Aug 2 10:57:58 UTC 2020


Hello Christian,

On Sat, 1 Aug 2020 17:33:48 -0700, Christian Stewart <christian at paral.in> wrote:

> Hi Peter,
>
> On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 2:51 PM Christian Stewart <christian at paral.in> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Peter,
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Aug 1, 2020, 2:34 PM Peter Seiderer <ps.report at gmx.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> maybe its worth to try some other 'upstream' sources, e.g. as
> >> openSUSE [4] does (mentioning previous [5] and [6]), or the first
> >> google search result [7] (did not find the time to dig into the
> >> different repositories to find out which one is the best)...
> >
> >
> > We've been through a number of these over the years. I would not recommend switching to another unless there's a specific reason. As far as I know the current configuration/upstream works fine with USB RTL cards.

Did only a quick test some weeks ago, trying the IBSS mode and to get wifibroadcast
to work (both did not work out as far as I remember, so switched to some other cards)...

>
> See: https://github.com/paralin/buildroot/commit/af8d30846e71e378fdcdb632bbbbfe0aaf7bb669
>

Will take a look at it (if I find some spare time ;-)) and try it out....

Regards,
Peter

> Just out of curiosity I made a patch switching to the aircrack fork,
> but there were some errors at the install step, for example:
>
> depmod: WARNING: /target/lib/modules/4.14.180/extra/88XXau.ko needs
> unknown symbol cfg80211_unlink_bss
> depmod: WARNING: /target/lib/modules/4.14.180/extra/88XXau.ko needs
> unknown symbol ieee80211
>
> Even though the CFG80211 options are enabled in the kernel, and the
> build passes with the old fork.
>
> Maybe there are some path issues going on there.
>
> Looks like the aircrack fork may have better support for packet injection?
>
> Best,
> Christian
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