From patchwork Mon Jul 25 15:12:22 2011 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Larry Finger X-Patchwork-Id: 1004812 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by demeter1.kernel.org (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p6PFCc8L021688 for ; Mon, 25 Jul 2011 15:12:38 GMT Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751360Ab1GYPMg (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jul 2011 11:12:36 -0400 Received: from mail-iy0-f174.google.com ([209.85.210.174]:58959 "EHLO mail-iy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751350Ab1GYPMg (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jul 2011 11:12:36 -0400 Received: by iyb12 with SMTP id 12so4703997iyb.19 for ; Mon, 25 Jul 2011 08:12:35 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type; bh=xX8gTxZz24Rlcv7Jdz3bMZfYkmZGmQnzwKqq/PtQJSo=; b=rJV/d4PfZXzdNxWGW7hZ4f/rb0VNBQ1j5VrJr4H9Y840G+p654SqLHEGIGHHtFZa9R mDuiuRY/SkEOIPl2DG4Fep4edgvg3Sfcmzi6MX7imWW4ZI9jwTdLnVC4jEIXixs8/g1D HDfKP2cVynG6K+XjV56JWsU/+wNioD3qZt350= Received: by 10.231.17.200 with SMTP id t8mr4765776iba.190.1311606755309; Mon, 25 Jul 2011 08:12:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from larrylap.lan (cpe-65-28-92-85.kc.res.rr.com [65.28.92.85]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 3sm3191295ibm.27.2011.07.25.08.12.33 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 25 Jul 2011 08:12:34 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E2D87D6.30503@lwfinger.net> Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 10:12:22 -0500 From: Larry Finger User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110616 SUSE/3.1.11 Thunderbird/3.1.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lubomir Schmidt CC: wireless , "'George0505'" Subject: Re: Support for Realtek 8188RU Chipset in rtl8192cu driver? References: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org X-Greylist: IP, sender and recipient auto-whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.6 (demeter1.kernel.org [140.211.167.41]); Mon, 25 Jul 2011 15:12:38 +0000 (UTC) On 07/25/2011 06:47 AM, Lubomir Schmidt wrote: > What distribution did you mean? > > The old AWUS036H had the Realtek 8187L, yes. Then there came out before nearly > an year the AWUS036NH and the AWUS036NEH. Both base on the Ralink 3070L Chipset > and have till today the best range of all devices on the market. > Now Alfa release the AWUS036NHR with the Realtek 8188RU and the AWUS036NHA with > an Atheros AR9271. > > Last year i helped to get support for the Ralink Chipsets in the 2800usb driver. > I got white papers and so on from the chipsets and the driver developer could > connect to an laptop running 24/7 and make tests with the device. > > How can i help to get support? What distribution did you prefere on the notebook > to connect to? When I looked at the driver, it turned out to be the driver for the RTL8192CU with new additional device IDs. Please try the attached patch for any 2.6.39 or later kernel. Meanwhile, I will see what other changes have been made to the driver. Larry Index: wireless-testing-new/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/sw.c =================================================================== --- wireless-testing-new.orig/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/sw.c +++ wireless-testing-new/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/sw.c @@ -281,6 +281,8 @@ static struct usb_device_id rtl8192c_usb {RTL_USB_DEVICE(USB_VENDER_ID_REALTEK, 0x817d, rtl92cu_hal_cfg)}, /* 8188CE-VAU USB minCard (b/g mode only) */ {RTL_USB_DEVICE(USB_VENDER_ID_REALTEK, 0x817e, rtl92cu_hal_cfg)}, + /* 8188RU in Alfa AWUS036NHR */ + {RTL_USB_DEVICE(USB_VENDER_ID_REALTEK, 0x817f, rtl92cu_hal_cfg)}, /* 8188 Combo for BC4 */ {RTL_USB_DEVICE(USB_VENDER_ID_REALTEK, 0x8754, rtl92cu_hal_cfg)},