Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752686Ab1ECNh2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 May 2011 09:37:28 -0400 Received: from muse.oxfordinspire.co.uk ([93.93.128.48]:60046 "EHLO muse.oxfordinspire.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752532Ab1ECNh0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 May 2011 09:37:26 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 1685 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Tue, 03 May 2011 09:37:26 EDT Message-ID: <4DBFFE64.6000306@exotica.org.uk> Date: Tue, 03 May 2011 14:08:52 +0100 From: Jools Wills User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110419 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Walter Goldens CC: Justin Piszcz , Larry Finger , Roland Dreier , linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.38: rt2800usb: driver is crashing the kernel References: <484421.61252.qm@web161619.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <484421.61252.qm@web161619.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -2.9 (--) X-Spam-Report: Spam detection software, running on the system "muse.oxfordinspire.co.uk", has identified this incoming email as possible spam. The original message has been attached to this so you can view it (if it isn't spam) or label similar future email. If you have any questions, see the administrator of that system for details. Content preview: in case it is useful: I am currently using the vendor driver on a device I have (O2 Joggler). The rt2800usb driver didn't work well and the staging rt2870sta driver didn't seem to work with wireless N and users reported to me that it drops the connection and is unreliable. The vendor driver does seem to work best. [...] Content analysis details: (-2.9 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- -1.0 ALL_TRUSTED Passed through trusted hosts only via SMTP -1.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 839 Lines: 24 in case it is useful: I am currently using the vendor driver on a device I have (O2 Joggler). The rt2800usb driver didn't work well and the staging rt2870sta driver didn't seem to work with wireless N and users reported to me that it drops the connection and is unreliable. The vendor driver does seem to work best. I made a debian package (using dkms) of the vendor driver on my joggler ppa. tested working wiht 2.6.37/2.6.38 https://launchpad.net/~jools/+archive/joggler note it doesn't automatically install the newer firmware so that will need to be done manually. Best Regards Jools -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/