arronar Posted January 14, 2018 Share Posted January 14, 2018 (edited) Hello all. I'm having a banana Pi and two days ago I had bananian OS on it. Now after searching online I decided to install armbian because it seems the most updated and more user-friendly one. One of the things that I want to do with my Pi, is to create an AP and connect other devices to it. So I read the documentation that is online from armbian site that refers on A. How to build a wireless driver? B. How to set wireless access point? Started with the A. and following all the steps, I realized that the 8192cu.ko module was already installed and loaded because when I tried to load it with insmod command it returned me: Quote [ 1093.746552] 8192cu: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel. [ 1093.763903] Error: Driver 'rtl8192cu' is already registered, aborting... So I continued with the B. article. I cloned the suggested repository and run the go.sh script. After everything was done I had two files called : Quote hostapd-custom_1.1_armhf.deb hostapd-custom-realtek_1.1_armhf.deb I chose to install (dpkg -i) the second one (realtek) because that's what my usb dongle needs (at least that's my opinion) After installing it, I tried to execute it by using the /etc/hostapd.realtek.conf Quote # hostapd -dd /etc/hostapd.realtek.conf What I got is : Quote random: Trying to read entropy from /dev/random Configuration file: /etc/hostapd.realtek.conf ctrl_interface_group=0 drv->ifindex=7 l2_sock_recv==l2_sock_xmit=0x0x1eb9af0 ioctl[SIOCSIWMODE]: Invalid argument Could not set interface to mode(3)! Could not set interface to master mode! rtl871xdrv driver initialization failed. hostapd_interface_deinit_free(0x1eb9550) hostapd_interface_deinit_free: num_bss=1 conf->num_bss=1 hostapd_interface_deinit(0x1eb9550) wlx0013ef6c46e3: interface state UNINITIALIZED->DISABLED hostapd_bss_deinit: deinit bss wlx0013ef6c46e3 wlx0013ef6c46e3: AP-DISABLED hostapd_cleanup(hapd=0x1eba170 (wlx0013ef6c46e3)) hostapd_free_hapd_data: Interface wlx0013ef6c46e3 wasn't started hostapd_interface_deinit_free: driver=(nil) drv_priv=(nil) -> hapd_deinit hostapd_interface_free(0x1eb9550) hostapd_interface_free: free hapd 0x1eba170 hostapd_cleanup_iface(0x1eb9550) hostapd_cleanup_iface_partial(0x1eb9550) hostapd_cleanup_iface: free iface=0x1eb9550 Here are also some other command's results that might be helpful: lsusb Quote Bus 002 Device 006: ID 0bda:8176 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8188CUS 802.11n WLAN Adapter iwconfig Quote wlx0013ef6c46e3 IEEE 802.11 ESSID:off/any Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=20 dBm Retry short limit:7 RTS thr=2347 B Fragment thr:off Encryption key:off Power Management:off uname -a Quote Linux bananapi 4.13.16-sunxi #20 SMP Fri Nov 24 19:50:07 CET 2017 armv7l GNU/Linux /etc/hostapd.realtek.conf Quote # # armbian hostapd configuration example # # realtek mode # ssid=SSID #interface=wlan0 interface=wlx0013ef6c46e3 hw_mode=g channel=5 #bridge=br0 driver=rtl871xdrv logger_syslog=0 logger_syslog_level=0 wmm_enabled=1 wpa=2 preamble=1 wpa_psk=66eb31d2b48d19ba216f2e50c6831ee11be98e2fa3a8075e30b866f4a5ccda27 wpa_passphrase=12345678 wpa_key_mgmt=WPA-PSK wpa_pairwise=TKIP rsn_pairwise=CCMP auth_algs=1 macaddr_acl=0 #noscan=1 ### IEEE 802.11n #ieee80211n=1 #ht_capab=[HT40+][LDPC][SHORT-GI-20][SHORT-GI-40][TX-STBC][RX-STBC1][DSSS_CCK-40][SMPS-STATIC] #ht_capab=[HT40-][SHORT-GI-40][SHORT-GI-40][DSSS_CCK-40] #ht_capab=[SHORT-GI-20][SHORT-GI-40][HT40+] #ht_capab=[DSSS_CK-40][HT20+] #ht_capab= #country_code=US #ieee80211d=1 ### IEEE 802.11n ### IEEE 802.11a #hw_mode=a ### IEEE 802.11a ### IEEE 802.11ac #ieee80211ac=1 #vht_capab=[MAX-MPDU-11454][SHORT-GI-80][TX-STBC-2BY1][RX-STBC-1][MAX-A-MPDU-LEN-EXP3] #vht_capab=[MAX-MPDU-11454][SHORT-GI-80][RX-STBC-1][MAX-A-MPDU-LEN-EXP3] #vht_capab= #vht_oper_chwidth=1 #vht_oper_centr_freq_seg0_idx=42 ### IEEE 802.11ac # controlling enabled ctrl_interface=/var/run/hostapd ctrl_interface_group=0 Also, I would like to mention that the USB dongle works properly as for the scanning of SSIDs using the nmtui tool, but if I'm going to connect to one of them with the correct password, nmtui returns : Quote Could not activate connection: Activation failed. Besides all these I also tried to use and the following solutions (but without any success): https://github.com/jenssegers/RTL8188-hostapd https://github.com/pritambaral/hostapd-rtl871xdrv Also, I remember that jensseger's solution was working when I had bananian OS but it had an older kernel that I don't remember right now. Does anyone else have this problem? Is there a chance of being a problem in the newer kernel and not driver's one? Any idea, hint, help is welcome. Thanks. Edited January 14, 2018 by arronar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 20 hours ago, arronar said: Is there a chance of being a problem in the newer kernel and not driver's one? It is possible that a driver in the new kernel is broken to some extend. The situation with those wireless chips is awful but I suspect you are running into a problem, that network-manager does not let you use your adaptor. You need to add wlx0013ef6c46e3 to ignored interfaces. I am also not sure you need a special realtek-hostapd for this adaptor. Try both methods. echo "[keyfile]" > /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/10-ignore-interfaces.conf echo "unmanaged-devices=interface-name:wlx0013ef6c46e3" >> /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/10-ignore-interfaces.conf service network-manager restart An armbian-config method should take care of this, but it also has some rough edges when setting AP. In any case, I recommend you an upgrade to something like this. A class better than 8192. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arronar Posted January 15, 2018 Author Share Posted January 15, 2018 1 hour ago, Igor said: In any case, I recommend you an upgrade to something like this. A class better than 8192. Did you make the Comfast 915AC work with latest version of hostapd and the rtl871xdrv driver or with the hostapd's default driver (nl80211)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 11 minutes ago, arronar said: with the hostapd's default driver With a default driver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arronar Posted January 15, 2018 Author Share Posted January 15, 2018 Nice to know. I'm going to order one now. Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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