Return-path: Received: from mail-oi0-f50.google.com ([209.85.218.50]:33973 "EHLO mail-oi0-f50.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751138AbbIFRG5 (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Sep 2015 13:06:57 -0400 Received: by oiev17 with SMTP id v17so34213118oie.1 for ; Sun, 06 Sep 2015 10:06:57 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] New driver: rtl8xxxu (mac80211) To: Kalle Valo , Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com References: <1440968574-29490-1-git-send-email-Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com> <1440968574-29490-2-git-send-email-Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com> <87twr7fvbb.fsf@kamboji.qca.qualcomm.com> Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org From: Larry Finger Message-ID: <55EC72AF.2050803@lwfinger.net> (sfid-20150906_190700_990811_980DE298) Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2015 12:06:55 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <87twr7fvbb.fsf@kamboji.qca.qualcomm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 09/06/2015 09:59 AM, Kalle Valo wrote: > Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com writes: > >> From: Jes Sorensen >> >> This is an alternate driver for a number of Realtek WiFi USB devices, >> including RTL8723AU, RTL8188CU, RTL8188RU, RTL8191CU, and RTL8192CU. >> It was written from scratch utilizing the Linux mac80211 stack. >> >> After spending months cleaning up the vendor provided rtl8723au >> driver, which comes with it's own 802.11 stack included, I decided to >> rewrite this driver from the bottom up. >> >> Many thanks to Johannes Berg for 802.11 insights and help and Larry >> Finger for help with the vendor driver. >> >> The full git log for the development of this driver can be found here: >> git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jes/linux.git >> branch rtl8723au-mac80211 >> >> This driver is still under development, but has proven to be very >> stable for me. It currently supports station mode only. It has support >> for OFDM and CCK rates, as well as AMPDU. It does lack certain >> features found in the staging driver, such as power management and >> 40MHz channel support. In addition it does not support AD-HOC, AP, and >> monitor mode support at this point. >> >> The driver is known to work with the following devices: >> Lenovo Yoga (rtl8723au) >> TP-Link TL-WN823N (rtl8192cu) >> Etekcity 6R (rtl8188cu) >> Daffodil LAN03 (rtl8188cu) >> Alfa AWUS036NHR (rtl8188ru) One other comment is that using lower case such as rtl8723au indicates a driver, whereas RTL8723AU is a device. There are no drivers rtl8188cu or rtl8188ru. Larry