From patchwork Fri Jul 29 15:56:38 2011 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Larry Finger X-Patchwork-Id: 1021272 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 p6TFujt4003696 for ; Fri, 29 Jul 2011 15:56:45 GMT Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752172Ab1G2P4n (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Jul 2011 11:56:43 -0400 Received: from mail-yx0-f174.google.com ([209.85.213.174]:41041 "EHLO mail-yx0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752108Ab1G2P4m (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Jul 2011 11:56:42 -0400 Received: by yxi11 with SMTP id 11so2313558yxi.19 for ; Fri, 29 Jul 2011 08:56:42 -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=xvqjzyAOU2pTZ7HFwnGS30HkoRTgzw6PSFejvUEllrg=; b=llC3fVtx9sO41KgYU1U0tRpo6hgVA4X94h985S/x4bWFrO8bcG3zehtSR8L038bkw2 LcG7SZaFUmtKKhBrEihhXBVRMOzsNon13N6eKAr1wFAGfx40yaXjTqXXSRXpGD4tgj6R HyKYrWu+6h0eniRwezopVbMQ1goddO3TljHBc= Received: by 10.42.168.72 with SMTP id v8mr1003741icy.266.1311955002252; Fri, 29 Jul 2011 08:56:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from larrylap.lan ([65.28.92.85]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id s2sm2849125icw.17.2011.07.29.08.56.40 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 29 Jul 2011 08:56:41 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E32D836.4080308@lwfinger.net> Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 10:56:38 -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]); Fri, 29 Jul 2011 15:57:17 +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. This is a ping on the previous mail. Did the patch work? 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)},