[Bug 97322] Re: rtl8187 module has no ad-hoc support

[Iuri Diniz]

With a little investigation, I confirmed that rtl8187 (which is based on
mac80211 stack) has no support to adhoc (IBSS)[1] and r8187(which is
based on ieee80211 stack) has (according to you)

the problem is that rtl8187 is now the focus of implementation because
ieee80211 drivers are considered legacy, the ieee80211 was removed from
the mainline and so r8187 is NOT SHIPPED with ubuntu kernel. But the
STAGING module rtl8192su continues to use ieee80211 stack while is not
converted [./Sources/linux-wireless-
testing/drivers/staging/rtl8192su/ieee80211]

2 choices:
1) we could ship the r8187 driver too (packing it with ieee80211 stack) and using jockey to select the correct driver (but jocker is for proprietary drivers) 
2) Wait for rtl8187 implementation

[1] http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers

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rtl8187 module has no ad-hoc support
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/97322
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