Return-path: Received: from mail-wi0-f175.google.com ([209.85.212.175]:36216 "EHLO mail-wi0-f175.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753816AbbIALQF (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Sep 2015 07:16:05 -0400 Received: by wibz8 with SMTP id z8so28367053wib.1 for ; Tue, 01 Sep 2015 04:16:04 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: RTL8189ETV To: Hans de Goede , Larry Finger , linux-wireless References: <55E47A27.4090703@gmail.com> <55E48988.1000803@gmail.com> <55E49415.7090807@lwfinger.net> <55E4B9A2.8060109@gmail.com> <55E5654D.2030607@redhat.com> From: poma Message-ID: <55E588F1.4090100@gmail.com> (sfid-20150901_131609_660412_4057199F) Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2015 13:16:01 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <55E5654D.2030607@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 01.09.2015 10:43, Hans de Goede wrote: > Hi, > > On 31-08-15 22:31, poma wrote: > >> Let's see if Hans knows what type of this device is RTL8189ETV. > > Assuming you are talking about the wifi module of the Allwinner H3 > based Orangepi2 as shown here: > > http://linux-sunxi.org/images/9/96/Xunlong_OrangePi2_front.jpg > > Then we are talking about a realtek sdio wifi module, not usb but sdio! > Care to share link to RTL8189ETV datasheet? > These wifi modules are not supported at all by upstream kernels atm. > > The path to getting these supported is: > > 1) Find the latest out of tree code for them I found nothing useful apropos rtl8189etv in "linux sdk source code" http://www.orangepi.org/downloadresources/ > 2) Get it to build and work with mainline > 3) Get it added to staging > 4) Clean it up, clean it up more, clean it up even more > 5) Repeat 4 > 6) At one future point hopefully the driver can be moved from staging > to drivers/net/wifi > Yeah, let's see is Realtek R&D gonna realize points 2 - 6. After all, it's their job, right. > Good luck with this! Good luck with this! > > Regards, > > Hans > > > p.s. > > I agree with Larry that the way you express yourself in your communications > is not really helpful. Please remember to be excellent to each other. > p.s. You can agree with whoever you want man, however I don't understand why you telling me, or what are you talking about in the first place. p.p.s. Although it did not help much, thanks for reply.