Return-path: Received: from charlotte.tuxdriver.com ([70.61.120.58]:60517 "EHLO smtp.tuxdriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752261AbZBDPau (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Feb 2009 10:30:50 -0500 Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 10:18:54 -0500 From: "John W. Linville" To: Hin-Tak Leung Cc: Ismael Ojeda Perez , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: zd1211rw NEW RF Type Message-ID: <20090204151854.GC3845@tuxdriver.com> (sfid-20090204_163054_989244_3E58B274) References: <3ace41890902040717l7174fc0xc4589f17ea283e9c@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <3ace41890902040717l7174fc0xc4589f17ea283e9c@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 03:17:26PM +0000, Hin-Tak Leung wrote: > On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Ismael Ojeda Perez > wrote: > > Hi, huston we have a problem > > I have purchased a tp-link usb wireless device > > model : tl-wn422g > > i cant work with it because it says there is a new RF type > > here its what dmesg shows > > > [ 526.984508] zd1211rw 7-2:1.0: RF MAXIM_NEW_RF 0x8 is not supported > > You probably don't hang out in the right place... two people on the > sourceforge zd1211 mailing list recently reported that > MAXIM_NEW_RF=0x08 is just the same as UW2453_RF=0x09 ; and one of > them has a wn422g and the other wn322g > (I just went back the mailing list archive and checked), so it is > likely the same change would work for you: > > in drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/zd_rf.c, line 89, you see: > > -------------------- > case UW2453_RF: > r = zd_rf_init_uw2453(rf); > break; > --------------------- > Just put an extra line > > case MAXIM_NEW_RF: > either immediately before or immediately after the case UW2453_RF: line. > > If it reports success for you, maybe we'll consider putting this in > properly... I am not the maintainer for that part, so it is likely > we'll need advice/approval from somebody else for this change to go > into the kernel. Or someone can send a patch with a report that it is working for them and I'll just merge it... :-) John -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@tuxdriver.com might be all we have. Be ready.