In commit 3ac5e26a1e935469a8bdae1d624bc3b59d1fcdc5 entitled
"rtlwifi: rtl8192c-common: Change common firmware routines for addition
of rtl8192se and rtl8192de", the firmware loading code was moved.
Unfortunately, some necessary code was dropped for rtl8192cu.
The dmesg output shows the following:
rtl8192c: Loading firmware file rtlwifi/rtl8192cufw.bin
rtl8192c_common:_rtl92c_fw_free_to_go():<0-0> Polling FW ready fail!! REG_MCUFWDL:0x00000006 .
rtl8192c_common:rtl92c_download_fw():<0-0> Firmware is not ready to run!
In addition, the interface will authenticate and associate, but cannot
transfer data.
This is reported as Kernel Bug #38012.
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <[email protected]>
---
John,
This fix should be applied to 3.0. It is a mystery how this bug got through
testing. I guess I need a checklist.
Larry
---
Index: wireless-testing-new/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/sw.c
===================================================================
--- wireless-testing-new.orig/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/sw.c
+++ wireless-testing-new/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/sw.c
@@ -53,6 +53,8 @@ MODULE_FIRMWARE("rtlwifi/rtl8192cufw.bin
static int rtl92cu_init_sw_vars(struct ieee80211_hw *hw)
{
struct rtl_priv *rtlpriv = rtl_priv(hw);
+ const struct firmware *firmware;
+ int err;
rtlpriv->dm.dm_initialgain_enable = 1;
rtlpriv->dm.dm_flag = 0;
@@ -64,6 +66,24 @@ static int rtl92cu_init_sw_vars(struct i
("Can't alloc buffer for fw.\n"));
return 1;
}
+ /* request fw */
+ err = request_firmware(&firmware, rtlpriv->cfg->fw_name,
+ rtlpriv->io.dev);
+ if (err) {
+ RT_TRACE(rtlpriv, COMP_ERR, DBG_EMERG,
+ ("Failed to request firmware!\n"));
+ return 1;
+ }
+ if (firmware->size > 0x4000) {
+ RT_TRACE(rtlpriv, COMP_ERR, DBG_EMERG,
+ ("Firmware is too big!\n"));
+ release_firmware(firmware);
+ return 1;
+ }
+ memcpy(rtlpriv->rtlhal.pfirmware, firmware->data, firmware->size);
+ rtlpriv->rtlhal.fwsize = firmware->size;
+ release_firmware(firmware);
+
return 0;
}