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January 29, 2020 04:22
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A patch to force systemd deal with KUSO wifi dongle like R8188EU
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| diff --git a/src/network/networkd-wifi.c b/src/network/networkd-wifi.c | |
| index 14a8687458..12cf4eda23 100644 | |
| --- a/src/network/networkd-wifi.c | |
| +++ b/src/network/networkd-wifi.c | |
| @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ int wifi_get_info(Link *link) { | |
| _cleanup_free_ char *ssid = NULL; | |
| r = wifi_get_interface(link->manager->genl, link->ifindex, &link->wlan_iftype, &ssid); | |
| if (r < 0) | |
| - return r; | |
| + return 0; | |
| if (r > 0 && streq_ptr(link->ssid, ssid)) | |
| r = 0; | |
| free_and_replace(link->ssid, ssid); |
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Some WiFi chips do not support functions to provide information about the interface. Despite so, systemd assumes that any WiFi chip support such functions properly and eventually fails to setup the interface because of that. This patch makes systemd stop dealing with such KUSO WiFi chips seriously.