Hi All,
Just wanted to check if anyone managed to get a “Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8188EUS 802.11n Wireless Network Adapter” to work. This is an usb passthrough device from proxmox to ipfire vm. Drivers seems to be loaded properly according to lsusb -
Bus 009 Device 002: ID 0bda:8179 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8188EUS 802.11n Wireless Network Adapter
This works when used with pfsense but with ipfire i get the below error.
[root@kong ~]# hostapd /etc/hostapd.conf -i blue0
nl80211: Could not configure driver mode
nl80211: deinit ifname=blue0 disabled_11b_rates=0
nl80211 driver initialization failed.
blue0: interface state UNINITIALIZED->DISABLED
blue0: AP-DISABLED
blue0: CTRL-EVENT-TERMINATING
hostapd_free_hapd_data: Interface blue0 wasn't started
[root@kong ~]#
Here is the hostapd.conf which was generated automatically.
driver=nl80211
country_code=LK
country3=0x49 # indoor
ieee80211d=1
ieee80211h=1
channel=6
local_pwr_constraint=3
spectrum_mgmt_required=1
hw_mode=g
logger_syslog=-1
logger_syslog_level=4
auth_algs=1
ctrl_interface=/var/run/hostapd
ctrl_interface_group=0
disassoc_low_ack=1
ssid2="LeWires"
utf8_ssid=1
noscan=1
ieee80211w=0
wpa=2
wpa_passphrase=
wpa_key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
rsn_pairwise=CCMP
In iw list, master or ap is not listed as a supported mode. So maybe its loaded the wrong driver?
