Hi, I tried to make the crappy Realtek rtl8189fs/rtl8189es/rtl8723bs wifi drivers work in OpenWrt, but gave up for now. I just want to write my current observations.
When OpenWrt finds a nl80211 compatible wifi device it deletes all the existing virtual interfaces and then creates the configured interfaces again, this works with all the supported cfg80211 based wifi drivers in OpenWrt and is ok in my opinion. See: https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt/openwrt.git;a=blob;f=package/kernel/mac80211/files/lib/netifd/wireless/mac80211.sh;h=bf9d52ae4203c294e25487f1678cfcd25e7a1dce;hb=HEAD#l465 This does not work with the crappy Realtek drivers. Deletion of interfaces is supported by the crappy Realtek driver, but it can only create monitor interfaces again and no managed or ap interfaces, which makes it pretty useless. To support these drivers the cfg80211_rtw_add_virtual_intf() functions has to support adding an interface other than the monitor interface. rtl8723bs: https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/os_dep/ioctl_cfg80211.c#L2713 rtl8189es: https://github.com/jwrdegoede/rtl8189ES_linux/blob/master/os_dep/linux/ioctl_cfg80211.c#L3994 rtl8189fs: https://github.com/jwrdegoede/rtl8189ES_linux/blob/rtl8189fs/os_dep/linux/ioctl_cfg80211.c#L4040 I added these drivers to OpenWrt, but will not merge this into master as long as it does not work at all in OpenWrt, see my development branch here: https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt/staging/hauke.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/rtl8189 Hauke _______________________________________________ Lede-dev mailing list Lede-dev@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/lede-dev
