Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:19016 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751273AbaFJGjw (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jun 2014 02:39:52 -0400 Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 08:38:24 +0200 From: Stanislaw Gruszka To: Larry Finger Cc: Powerful Notageek , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" , users@rt2x00.serialmonkey.com Subject: Re: MT7630e availability in kernel by default Message-ID: <20140610063824.GD1720@redhat.com> (sfid-20140610_083956_134700_9C9BCF9B) References: <1402159087.63238.YahooMailNeo@web193001.mail.sg3.yahoo.com> <53935133.5020303@lwfinger.net> <1402163980.67578.YahooMailNeo@web193003.mail.sg3.yahoo.com> <539356EA.1070004@lwfinger.net> <1402165531.45127.YahooMailNeo@web193003.mail.sg3.yahoo.com> <53935FFE.10708@lwfinger.net> <1402168424.40608.YahooMailNeo@web193005.mail.sg3.yahoo.com> <53936C6E.8070800@lwfinger.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <53936C6E.8070800@lwfinger.net> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sat, Jun 07, 2014 at 02:47:58PM -0500, Larry Finger wrote: > On 06/07/2014 02:13 PM, Powerful Notageek wrote: > >dmesg says nothing and there's probably no firmware for the device (although linux-firmware is installed) > > > >These are the firmwares available to me: > > > >[root@localhost ~]# ll /usr/lib/firmware/rt2* > >-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 8192 Mar 18 00:08 /usr/lib/firmware/rt2561.bin > >-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 8192 Mar 18 00:08 /usr/lib/firmware/rt2561s.bin > >-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 8192 Mar 18 00:08 /usr/lib/firmware/rt2661.bin > >-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 8192 Mar 18 00:08 /usr/lib/firmware/rt2860.bin > >-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 8192 Mar 18 00:08 /usr/lib/firmware/rt2870.bin > > I looked more closely at the code in > https://github.com/anthonywong/mt7630. There are a number of places > where there are branches specific to the MT7630. This driver is quite nice mix of rt2800pci and Mediatek/Ralink driver, where MT7xx code was copied into rt2x00 from venodr driver. It can be good start for adding support for mt7xx devices to rt2x00. > It also needs a > firmware file named mt7630.bin. Unfortunately, that file is not > found in the repo, and a quick Google search failed to find it. The > linux-firmware git repo has a file named mt7650.bin, but I think > that is Bluetooth firmware. Indeed, it is hard to find it. > Unfortunately, there does not seem to be an easy fix, and only > someone with the hardware could modify rt2800pci to support this > device. Yep, some substantial amount of work is needed to add support to new MT7xxx chips properly to rt2x00. Stanislaw