RTL8188CUS hostapd no longer works. No Raspberry Pi WiFi AP for you!
Nick Sayer wrote 03/30/2015 at 04:32 • 2 pointsIf you google for Raspberry Pi hostapd, the majority of the tutorials all have the exact same advice:
1. Get an RTL8188CUS based wifi dongle
2. Download or build a custom, Realtek proprietary, modified copy of hostapd from the pleistocene.
3. Set it up with "driver=rtl871xdrv" in hostapd.conf
4. profit.
So far as I can tell, with kernel 3.18.7+, that no longer works.
All you get when you try is
ioctl[SIOCSIWMODE]: Operation not permitted
Could not set interface to mode(3)!
Could not set interface to master mode!
rtl871xdrv driver initialization failed.
I seem to be either the first person in the entire known universe to discover this, or I have the only RTL8188CUS in the entire known universe for which this sequence of events has that result.
What. The. Fuck.
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I wound up firing RealTek and bought a RaLink dongle that works flawlessly out of the box.
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Hi Nick,
I have a working pi which I set up from scratch 2 days ago using an edimax 7811 dongle and 3.18.7+. I used the driver from jensseger.
Cheers,
Russell
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