Return-path: Received: from mail-gy0-f174.google.com ([209.85.160.174]:46406 "EHLO mail-gy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751633Ab1JQO7T (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Oct 2011 10:59:19 -0400 Received: by gyb13 with SMTP id 13so3042297gyb.19 for ; Mon, 17 Oct 2011 07:59:18 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E9C42CF.5010702@lwfinger.net> (sfid-20111017_165930_134232_00DAE180) Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 09:59:27 -0500 From: Larry Finger MIME-Version: 1.0 To: v4mp CC: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Alfa AWUS036NHR with RTL8188RU chipset References: <4E77F631.3030202@googlemail.com> <4E780309.9010601@lwfinger.net> <4E785DB3.5040109@googlemail.com> <4E7907D3.1020606@googlemail.com> <4E792994.1080809@lwfinger.net> <4E79B1D0.7090602@googlemail.com> <4E79F87F.1050402@lwfinger.net> <4E7A38D0.7070304@googlemail.com> <4E7A4310.30106@lwfinger.net> <4E7A48D1.8050009@googlemail.com> <4E7A4B03.4070006@lwfinger.net> <4E7A4B9C.5040000@googlemail.com> <4E7A4BFB.2080102@googlemail.com> <4E7A529E.1040808@lwfinger.net> <4E85DDA9.3090300@lwfinger.net> <4E8E2659.3060808@lwfinger.net> <4E907FB8.1040101@lwfinger.net> <4E91B400.1020305@lwfinger.net> <4E9A4647.60901@lwfinger.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 10/17/2011 05:07 AM, v4mp wrote: > > ok, i've attached the alfa and run rfkill list but it shows that there are no > blocked devices, then i run modprobe rtl8192cu and strangely the alfa has > lighted, but it doesn't work.. > i've done dmesg and seen this: > > [ 1218.079638] rtlwifi: reg 0xc80, usbctrl_vendorreq TimeOut! status:0xfffffff4 > value=0xed545b78 > [ 1218.079645] xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: ERROR no room on ep ring > [ 1218.079650] rtlwifi: reg 0xc80, usbctrl_vendorreq TimeOut! status:0xfffffff4 > value=0xed545b78 > [ 1218.079657] xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: ERROR no room on ep ring > [ 1218.079664] xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: ERROR no room on ep ring > [ 1218.079669] rtlwifi: reg 0xc4c, usbctrl_vendorreq TimeOut! status:0xfffffff4 > value=0xed545b78 > [ 1218.079676] xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: ERROR no room on ep ring > [ 1218.079682] xhci_hcd 0000:05:00.0: ERROR no room on ep ring > [ 1218.079687] rtlwifi: reg 0xc94, usbctrl_vendorreq TimeOut! status:0xfffffff4 > value=0xed545b78 > [ 1218.241190] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan1: link is not ready Those errors look as if the device was removed before unloading the driver. That is a known problem with the driver. > for the firmware i don't know how to update it, i'm using ubuntu 11.04 natty > with 3.1.0-0301rc9-generic > where can i download updated firmware to test it for this card? > thx The firmware is available in the linux-firmware git repo, and should be in your distro's firmware package. Only one version of the firmware has been published. The md5sum output is 943e9b714a926e630b8152d7aad91d2e /lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8192cufw.bin. Please reboot your system, try to connect, and then post your entire dmesg output at pastebin.com. Report the link here. Larry