Return-path: Received: from mail-ey0-f174.google.com ([209.85.215.174]:36490 "EHLO mail-ey0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752270Ab0KEULw (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Nov 2010 16:11:52 -0400 Received: by eye27 with SMTP id 27so2002972eye.19 for ; Fri, 05 Nov 2010 13:11:50 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4CD46524.5010100@lwfinger.net> Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 15:12:20 -0500 From: Larry Finger MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Johannes Berg CC: Josh Lehan , Pavel Machek , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: working usb wifi card, that is still possible to buy References: <20101103092431.GA21138@pma.sysgo.com> <4CD3CDB1.2090508@krellan.com> <4CD4036E.9090300@lwfinger.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 11/05/2010 12:54 PM, Johannes Berg wrote: > > On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 08:15:26 -0500, Larry Finger >> The Realtek RTL8712 (aka RTL8192U) and found in the D-Link DWA 130, has > a >> driver >> in 2.6.37 (r8712u). Although not based on mac80211, thus found in > staging, >> the >> driver is extremely stable - my connection never drops out. With an > 802.11n >> router, I get transmission throughput of up to 70 Mb/s. > > That definitely requires USB 2 though, and I suspect that > nobody actually ever tests their devices on a 1.1 only > controller like Pavel was asking for. I have tested on 1.1 and it works. The rate mechanism of that non-mac80211 driver ends up at 54M with a maximum transmission rate of 7.1 Mb/s. That must be the maximum that USB 1.1 can handle. Larry