Bug 73861

Summary:	AWUS 036NHR v.2 8188RU cant associate and cant capture handshake.
Product:	Backports project	Reporter:	youlold
Component:	Backports	Assignee:	Backports Project Mailing List (backports)
Status:	CLOSED OBSOLETE
Severity:	high	CC:	alan, Larry.Finger
Priority:	P1
Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
Kernel Version:	3.12.6-2	Subsystem:
Regression:	No	Bisected commit-id:
Attachments:	PAtched, compiled drivers for 8188RU from tinycore 2.6

Description youlold 2014-04-11 17:58:40 UTC

https://monosnap.com/image/XYdmelapIpF6Q84vsStXLGjqok1Rc3.png
 CH  2 ][ Elapsed: 32 s ][ 2014-04-11 21:55                                         
                                                                                                                                           
 BSSID              STATION            PWR   Rate    Lost    Frames  Probe                                                                  
                                                                                                                                            
 (not associated)   08:ED:B9:B4:03:11  -73    0 - 1      0        2                                                                         
 (not associated)   10:08:C1:5D:55:46  -73    0 - 1      0        1  katerina1950                                                           
 (not associated)   14:F4:2A:6C:47:34  -53    0 - 1      0       11  Wive-RTNL                                                              
 (not associated)   50:B7:C3:1A:9C:7F  -59    0 - 1      0        3                                                                         
 (not associated)   EC:55:F9:7A:6B:2E  -65    0 - 1      0        1  X-ZIBIT                                                                
 (not associated)   BC:0F:2B:6B:10:0D  -65    0 - 1     77        6                                                                         
 (not associated)   C0:F8:DA:B0:FD:41  -67    0 - 1      0        3                                                                         
 (not associated)   C0:18:85:79:3F:1B  -69    0 - 1      0        1                                                                         
 (not associated)   B8:03:05:7F:7E:61  -73    0 - 1      0        1                                                                         
 (not associated)   E8:03:9A:CD:49:EC  -73    0 - 1      0        1

Comment 1 Larry Finger 2014-04-11 18:11:07 UTC

There were a lot of changes in kernel 3.14 for this driver that could not be backported to 3.12. Does Debian supply a 3.14 kernel?

Comment 2 youlold 2014-04-14 09:15:02 UTC

(In reply to Larry Finger from comment #1)
> There were a lot of changes in kernel 3.14 for this driver that could not be
> backported to 3.12. Does Debian supply a 3.14 kernel?

I installed backports-20140221 to 3.14.0-5-ARCH i686 (Archlinux core), and still "not associated", but on Fedora 3.15 i got associations. 
What's wrong with arch? Wrong core? Wrong core settings?

Comment 3 youlold 2014-04-14 17:54:39 UTC

(In reply to Larry Finger from comment #1)
> There were a lot of changes in kernel 3.14 for this driver that could not be
> backported to 3.12. Does Debian supply a 3.14 kernel?

Okay. Now i'm installed backports-20140221 into debian 3.14-rc7-amd64, and dont have associations again. Now im seriously disappointed. 
Maybe you know something what i didnt know?

Comment 4 youlold 2014-04-15 07:18:22 UTC

(In reply to Larry Finger from comment #1)
> There were a lot of changes in kernel 3.14 for this driver that could not be
> backported to 3.12. Does Debian supply a 3.14 kernel?

Anytime i configure backports-2014022 with key defconfig-wifi. Today i wanna test it with archlinux kernel 3.15

Comment 5 youlold 2014-04-23 06:37:35 UTC

On kernel 3.15rc2 card do associating(not good, but do), but cant properly connect and make WPS transaction.

Comment 6 youlold 2014-04-23 06:38:27 UTC

Created attachment 133351 [details]
PAtched, compiled drivers for 8188RU from tinycore 2.6

Comment 7 Larry Finger 2014-04-23 15:31:58 UTC

WPS is not tested and probably doesn't work.

Comment 8 youlold 2014-04-23 15:56:15 UTC

(In reply to Larry Finger from comment #7)
> WPS is not tested and probably doesn't work.

I dont know can you reverse or decompile drivers or not, but this archive contains good variation of driver.

Also on =<3.15rc2 packet injections working very bad.

Comment 9 Larry Finger 2014-04-23 16:22:42 UTC

That driver does not use mac80211. For that reason, it could never be an official part of the kernel. You may use it at your own risk, but it is unsupported.

Comment 10 Johannes Berg 2017-02-09 16:34:11 UTC

closing bugs changed >1year ago as obsolete