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Date:   Wed, 4 Mar 2020 11:21:52 +0100
From:   Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
To:     Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
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Subject: Re: Support for RTL8188FU
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On 2019-10-01 13:52:30 [-0500], Larry Finger wrote:
> The first thing I would do is clone the v5.2.2.4 branch of
> lwfinger/rtl8188eu at GitHub, add the USB ID for your device, and see if
> that works. I expect it will. If so, that would get you quite a ways toward
> the changes needed to get that driver into staging.

Adding the id didn't help. I added "hal/Hal8188FPwrSeq.o" next to
"hal/Hal8188EPwrSeq.o". Some parts were different.
After loading the firmware the driver said that the firmware wasn't
active. So I tweaked the firmware loading part a little. The signature
of the firmware in my driver is 0x88F0 instead of 0x88E0 and the
"normal-nic" firmware has 20306 bytes. By loading the "other" firmware
the firmware and driver says that it is "alive".
I disabled the "IOL" bits (like rtw_IOL_applied() which returns false).
It took long and didn't seem to succeed. My driver lacks most of the
code, rtw_IOL_applied() isn't referenced anyway and the ifdef isn't set.

I would continue to add more pieces in order to get it working unless
you have a different advice.

> Larry

Sebastian