Return-path: Received: from mail-qc0-f174.google.com ([209.85.216.174]:44227 "EHLO mail-qc0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750848Ab2DPF52 (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Apr 2012 01:57:28 -0400 Received: by qcro28 with SMTP id o28so2930858qcr.19 for ; Sun, 15 Apr 2012 22:57:28 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <20120413142352.3b927516@destiny.ordissimo> From: Anisse Astier Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 07:57:07 +0200 Message-ID: (sfid-20120416_075732_151000_CA4A18D0) Subject: Re: RT5390 not working with rt2800pci To: Julian Calaby Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, users@rt2x00.serialmonkey.com, linville@tuxdriver.com, RA-Shiang Tu , Ivo van Doorn , Gertjan van Wingerde , Helmut Schaa , RA-Jay Hung Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 1:38 AM, Julian Calaby wrote: > Hi Anisse, > > On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 03:33, Anisse Astier wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Anisse Astier wrote: >>> >>> [1] I have many of both, in RT5390(rev 1502) and RT5390F(rev 0502) models. All non working are rev 1502, even if some rev 1502 are working. >> >> To clarify, Revs 0502, marked RT5390L are all working, and can be >> ignored for the purpose of this discussion. >> >> The only non-working revs are 1502, which is the model marked >> "RT5390RL". This model has zero google results apart from this >> discussion, so I'm guessing it might be new, hence not much tested and >> not supported. > > This is likely to be the case, I'm sure that the rt2x00 developers > will probably have support in the driver once RaLink gives them the > code / info needed. > >> Why some cards work and others don't is a mystery. > > Not really, old cards generally work, current cards that have been out > for a little while generally work, and bleeding edge, > just-released-yesterday cards tend not to. What I meant is that in the set of RT5390RL cards, some work, some don't, consistently, and I cannot find any difference between them. > > In general, the kernel developers only add support for a card once > it's been released. Indeed, and once someone reports they exist ;-) > > Thanks, > > -- > Julian Calaby > > Email: julian.calaby@gmail.com > Profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/julian.calaby/ > .Plan: http://sites.google.com/site/juliancalaby/