rtl8812au driver is Type wext. Is not compatible with nl80211

[jefflancaster]

Are there any plans to get the rtl8812au driver compatible with nl80211?

root@OpenWrt:/# ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr B0:4E:26:5A:95:4C
inet addr:192.168.1.101 Bcast:0.0.0.0 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:346 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:57 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:33098 (32.3 KiB) TX bytes:8895 (8.6 KiB) Interrupt:5

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 40:A5:EF:D5:28:70
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

wlan1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr B0:4E:26:5A:95:4D
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

root@OpenWrt:/# iw dev phy#0 Interface wlan1 ifindex 4 wdev 0x1 addr b0:4e:26:5a:95:4d type managed root@OpenWrt:/# iwinfo wlan0 ESSID: unknown Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00 Mode: Unknown Channel: 1 (2.412 GHz) Tx-Power: unknown Link Quality: 0/100 Signal: unknown Noise: unknown Bit Rate: unknown Encryption: unknown Type: wext HW Mode(s): 802.11abg Hardware: unknown [Generic WEXT] TX power offset: unknown Frequency offset: unknown Supports VAPs: no PHY name: wlan0

wlan1 ESSID: unknown Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00 Mode: Client Channel: unknown (unknown) Tx-Power: unknown Link Quality: unknown/70 Signal: unknown Noise: unknown Bit Rate: unknown Encryption: unknown Type: nl80211 HW Mode(s): 802.11bgn Hardware: unknown [Generic MAC80211] TX power offset: unknown Frequency offset: unknown Supports VAPs: yes PHY name: phy0

root@OpenWrt:/# wpa_supplicant -i wlan0 -c wpa.conf Successfully initialized wpa_supplicant nl80211: Could not configure driver mode nl80211: deinit ifname=wlan0 disabled_11b_rates=0 wlan0: Failed to initialize driver interface

[kimocoder]

We've got one over here but as many other versions of this driver, it for issues around.