Return-path: Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.17.8]:64987 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752289Ab2LXE15 (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 Dec 2012 23:27:57 -0500 Message-ID: <1356323269.5656.43.camel@marge.simpson.net> (sfid-20121224_052806_642110_1233688A) Subject: Re: dire state of rtl driver in 3.7 From: Mike Galbraith To: Larry Finger Cc: Norbert Preining , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2012 05:27:49 +0100 In-Reply-To: <50D7572E.8060908@lwfinger.net> References: <20121222150909.GA3979@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> <1356241795.5620.47.camel@marge.simpson.net> <50D7572E.8060908@lwfinger.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sun, 2012-12-23 at 13:10 -0600, Larry Finger wrote: > Note, the RTL8188CE uses rtl8192ce, while the RTL8191SE uses rtl8192se. They > share the underlying plumbing in driver rtlwifi, but the rest is completely > different. Driver here is rtl8192se. 08:00.0 0280: 10ec:8172 (rev 10) Subsystem: 10ec:8181 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17 I/O ports at 4000 [size=256] Memory at c0900000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3 Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+ Capabilities: [70] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00 Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting Capabilities: [140] Virtual Channel Capabilities: [160] Device Serial Number 88-55-22-fe-ff-4c-e0-00 Kernel driver in use: rtl8192se Point was, driver state may still be dire for some hardware, but here, the same driver for very similar looking hardware went from useless to works fine. My desktop box has this thing in it, which also used to be completely useless with the in kernel driver, but now works (it's still useless, router sits on top of that box;). Both devices now seem to work just fine, whereas both used to be a PITA if I wanted to use them. Bus 001 Device 004: ID 13d3:3247 IMC Networks 802.11 n/g/b Wireless LAN Adapter Device Descriptor: bLength 18 bDescriptorType 1 bcdUSB 2.00 bDeviceClass 0 (Defined at Interface level) bDeviceSubClass 0 bDeviceProtocol 0 bMaxPacketSize0 64 idVendor 0x13d3 IMC Networks idProduct 0x3247 802.11 n/g/b Wireless LAN Adapter bcdDevice 8.01 iManufacturer 1 Ralink iProduct 2 802.11 n WLAN iSerial 3 1.0