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Topic: What is needed for wirreless usb dongle?

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Hi,

I'm running Openwrt on the Bifferboard and i'm trying to get my Netgear WG111 V3 working.

dmesg on my laptop shows:

[26998.580681] rtl8187: 8187B chip detected. Support is EXPERIMENTAL, and could damage your
[26998.580691]          hardware, use at your own risk
[26998.594283] phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'pid'
[26999.054468] phy0: hwaddr 00:1e:2a:b6:99:41, RTL8187BvE V0 + rtl8225z2
[26999.055066] usbcore: registered new interface driver rtl8187
[26999.143381] udev: renamed network interface wlan0 to wlan2

It is recognized directly on Kubuntu 8.04 and works.
what modules do i need to compile int my kernel to get a working wireless network?
I manualy added the RTL8187 drivers with make kernel_menuconfig and also the kmod-crypto-aes (and some related stuff)
i now can see my network, but i just cant get Openwrt to connect using wpa-supplicant.

Anny suggestions will be appreciated.
Thanks and regards,
MRX

So... this is a forum about Wireless Linux and nobody knows the answer?

Read the other threads about rtl8187, you need the mac80211 driver for wpa, and ap/master mode is not yet supported.

The discussion might have continued from here.