Return-path: Received: from mail-ob0-f175.google.com ([209.85.214.175]:33496 "EHLO mail-ob0-f175.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751119AbcB2G5X (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Feb 2016 01:57:23 -0500 Received: by mail-ob0-f175.google.com with SMTP id jq7so125894894obb.0 for ; Sun, 28 Feb 2016 22:57:23 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: alfa awus036nhr v2 and module rtl8xxxu To: Jes Sorensen References: <56B38CDF.9010806@lwfinger.net> <56BA8E5D.5090402@lwfinger.net> <56BB5C16.8070206@lwfinger.net> Cc: dsadsa sadsad , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org From: Larry Finger Message-ID: <56D3EBCF.7000206@lwfinger.net> (sfid-20160229_075737_980375_15780EBA) Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 00:57:19 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 02/28/2016 05:01 PM, Jes Sorensen wrote: > Larry Finger writes: >> On 02/10/2016 06:01 AM, dsadsa sadsad wrote: >>> So do i have to patch and recompile or not? >> >> It will not change a thing for the AWUS036NHR. It will fix a bug in >> 1T2R devices. > > After pulling my hairs out over this one for days (if not weeks), I > think I finally figured it out. > > I just pushed a patch into the rtl8xxxu-nextgen repository which makes > the AWUS036NHR v2 work for me. Jes, On my unit, which seems to be V1, things are worse. The logged output is [ 31.833290] usb 3-6: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 [ 31.833292] usb 3-6: Product: ALFA AWUS036NHR [ 31.833294] usb 3-6: SerialNumber: 00e04c000001 [ 32.066835] fuse init (API version 7.24) [ 33.201094] usb 3-6: Vendor: ^R^CALFA [ 33.201097] usb 3-6: Product: US036NHR [ 33.201099] usb 3-6: rtl8192cu_parse_efuse: dumping efuse (0x80 bytes): [ 33.201101] usb 3-6: 00: 29 81 00 74 cd 00 00 00 [ 33.201102] usb 3-6: 08: ff 00 da 0b 7f 81 03 41 [ 33.201103] usb 3-6: 10: 32 00 85 62 9e ad 00 c0 [ 33.201105] usb 3-6: 18: ca 52 c3 c9 02 03 12 03 [ 33.201106] usb 3-6: 20: 41 4c 46 41 20 20 41 57 [ 33.201107] usb 3-6: 28: 55 53 30 33 36 4e 48 52 [ 33.201108] usb 3-6: 30: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 [ 33.201110] usb 3-6: 38: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 [ 33.201111] usb 3-6: 40: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 [ 33.201112] usb 3-6: 48: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 [ 33.201113] usb 3-6: 50: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 [ 33.201114] usb 3-6: 58: 06 00 19 19 19 00 00 00 [ 33.201116] usb 3-6: 60: 27 26 25 00 00 00 00 00 [ 33.201117] usb 3-6: 68: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 [ 33.201118] usb 3-6: 70: 00 00 00 00 00 0a 40 00 [ 33.201119] usb 3-6: 78: 0e 20 00 00 36 00 04 00 [ 33.201121] usb 3-6: RTL8188RU rev A (TSMC) 1T1R, TX queues 2, WiFi=1, BT=0, GPS=0, HI PA=1 [ 33.201122] usb 3-6: RTL8188RU MAC: 00:c0:ca:52:c3:c9 [ 33.201124] usb 3-6: rtl8xxxu: Loading firmware rtlwifi/rtl8192cufw_TMSC.bin [ 33.203491] usb 3-6: Firmware revision 80.0 (signature 0x88c1) [ 33.348885] usb 3-6: Failed to initialize RF [ 33.661460] usbcore: registered new interface driver rtl8xxxu [ 33.675077] rtl8xxxu 3-6:1.0 wlp0s20u6: renamed from wlan0 [ 33.749780] usb 3-6: rtl8xxxu_int_complete: Error -71 Larry