BPi - R1 setup 15.08 - hostapd /8192cu problem

Tido

Hi,

I have tried to setup the BPi - R1with the latest Bananian 15.08. Unfortunately, it doesn't work.
It comes with rtl8192 v3.3.2 added from Bananian and the hostapd v2.3 from Debian.
I have tried different combinations, but I always received:

invalid/unknown driver 'rtl871xdrv'

I see the only solution in packaging a 'PowerTeam' that works together.

I was wondering if the:

• hostapd
• hostapd_cli
• rtl8192
  

from armbian 3.4.108 could be copied into the bananian APT repository?
On the other hand, I don't know if the rtl8192 is the big exception and doesn't fit into the
BananaPi-all-in-one distro.

If someone else got Bananian working with BPi-R1 with standard software please tell me how.

Cheers
Tido

swipon

There is a patch to have hostapd compatible to this driver.

You can download my precompiled deb here:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/whrzs ... .4-4_armhf.deb?dl=0

Tido

Hi Swipon,

Finally someone who answers
I will check your .deb and come back with my findings

Tido

Tido replied at Jan 06, 2016 08:54
I will check your .deb and come back with my findings ...

During install it asked me to replace my config-files with the one from your .deb.
I ignored that, but had a look at the differences. One that caught my attention:

nano /etc/init.d/hostapd

1. -PIDFILE=/run/hostapd.pid
   
2. +PIDFILE=/var/run/hostapd.pid

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Especially the "-PIDFILE=/run/hostapd.pid" I suggest to adjust this, because:

Modern Linux distributions include a /run directory as a temporary filesystem (tmpfs) which stores volatile runtime data, following the FHS version 3.0. According to the FHS version 2.3, this data should be stored in /var/run but this was a problem in some cases because this directory isn't always available at early boot.
more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard
or Debian here  

For some reason it lists the 5GHz band although it is not capable.
  hostapd -dd /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf
Allowed channel: mode=2 chan=36 freq=5180 MHz max_tx_power=0 dBm


I can ping GOOGLE on the R1 with SSH and my mobile does connect to the R1 and gets its IP-Address but I get no connection to the internet

from the daemon.log

1. Jan 16 22:15:50 bananapi hostapd: wlan0: STA 10:68:3f:70:65:37 IEEE 802.11: associated
   
2. Jan 16 22:15:50 bananapi hostapd: wlan0: STA 10:68:3f:70:65:37 IEEE 802.11: associated
   
3. Jan 16 22:15:51 bananapi hostapd: wlan0: STA 10:68:3f:70:65:37 WPA: received EAPOL-Key msg 2/4 in invalid state (10) - dropped
   
4. Jan 16 22:15:51 bananapi hostapd: wlan0: STA 10:68:3f:70:65:37 WPA: received EAPOL-Key with invalid MIC
   
5. Jan 16 22:15:51 bananapi hostapd: wlan0: STA 10:68:3f:70:65:37 RADIUS: starting accounting session 569AB2B4-00000000
   
6. Jan 16 22:15:51 bananapi hostapd: wlan0: STA 10:68:3f:70:65:37 WPA: pairwise key handshake completed (RSN)
   
7. Jan 16 22:15:54 bananapi hostapd: wlan0: STA 10:68:3f:70:65:37 IEEE 802.11: disassociated
   
8. Jan 16 22:15:54 bananapi hostapd: wlan0: STA 10:68:3f:70:65:37 IEEE 802.11: disassociated
   
9. Jan 16 22:16:06 bananapi hostapd: wlan0: STA 10:68:3f:70:65:37 IEEE 802.11: associated
   
10. Jan 16 22:16:06 bananapi hostapd: wlan0: STA 10:68:3f:70:65:37 IEEE 802.11: associated
    
11. Jan 16 22:16:07 bananapi hostapd: wlan0: STA 10:68:3f:70:65:37 WPA: received EAPOL-Key msg 2/4 in invalid state (10) - dropped
    
12. Jan 16 22:16:07 bananapi hostapd: wlan0: STA 10:68:3f:70:65:37 WPA: received EAPOL-Key with invalid MIC
    
13. Jan 16 22:16:07 bananapi hostapd: wlan0: STA 10:68:3f:70:65:37 RADIUS: starting accounting session 569AB2B4-00000001
    
14. Jan 16 22:16:07 bananapi hostapd: wlan0: STA 10:68:3f:70:65:37 WPA: pairwise key handshake completed (RSN)
    
15. Jan 16 22:16:10 bananapi hostapd: wlan0: STA 10:68:3f:70:65:37 IEEE 802.11: disassociated
    
16. Jan 16 22:16:10 bananapi hostapd: wlan0: STA 10:68:3f:70:65:37 IEEE 802.11: disassociated
    

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Any idea what I can test?