rtl8187se wireless card driver for linux
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Hi,
I have a problem connecting to my WPA2 network from my Linux netbook which has Realtek’s 8187se mini pci wireless card.
My home network setup consists of a home made Linux Access point serving WPA2 on hostapd.
However, I am unable to connect to it with this wireless card and the driver on various Linux distros.
With the same hardware using Windows XP, I can easily connect to the Linux access point.
On the following link, I’ve informed the hostapd mailing list about the problem looking for a solution on the access point side.
However, I believe the most accurate solution could be supplied by the driver developers.
http://lists.shmoo.com/pipermail/hostap/2009-March/019561.html
Below is my description of the problem to hostapd group. I’d be very happy if you can look at the problem and let me know how I can solve this issue.
I am also attaching the full logs from hostapd daemon on the access point side.
Thanks,
ilker
I have a Linux access point which is serving my home network using the
hostapd daemon.
Until last week, I was very happy with it using version 5.8 because all of
my clients (Windows XP) were able to connect to my WPA2-PSK network.
However, on my new netbook (MSI Wind U100) I decided to use Ubuntu and I am
unable to connect to the Linux access point.
On the access point I have an Atheros wireless mini pci card.
On the netbook I have Realtek's 8187se card and I have two working drivers
for it.
With both drivers, I can connect to many commercial wireless access points
serving WPA2, using 802.11B
As a side note, If I select 802.11G on these commercial APs , I can't
connect with my Realtek card.
Anyway, I have no objection to using 802.11B.
But on my home network, I can't connect even using "hw_mode=b" on the
hostapd.conf file.
I tried many settings of the hostapd.conf file but I still can not connect.
I even upgraded to hostapd version 6.8 (from 5.8) but that did not solve the
issue.
When I check hostapd logs, I see "EAPOL-key timeout" messages.
If you require, I can send full logs too.
The problem is solved. According to the following posts:
http://hostap.epitest.fi/bugz/show_bug.cgi?id=215
http://lists.shmoo.com/pipermail/hostap/2007-July/016011.html
Disabling wme on hostapd configuration:
/etc/hostapd.conf :
wme_enabled=0
This solved my problem.