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From: Ivo van Doorn <ivdoorn@gmail.com>
To: rt2400-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>,
	Mark Wallis <mwallis@serialmonkey.com>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Rt2400-devel] Both rt2500usb and rt73 claim USB device 148f:2573
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:20:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200802151420.28082.IvDoorn@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080215020738.7i4ba6miv4kk8cow@webmail.spamcop.net>

On Friday 15 February 2008, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> Quoting Mark Wallis <mwallis@serialmonkey.com>:
> 
> > Hi Pavel,
> >
> > On 15/02/2008, at 5:14 PM, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> >
> >> My Level One WNC-0301USB v3 has USB ID 148f:2573, which is listed as
> >> compatible both in rt2500usb.c and rt73usb.c.  It only works with rt73
> >> but not with rt2500usb.
> >>
> >> Is this duplication intentional?
> >
> > I'm afraid so. That particular manufacturer I believe changed the
> > chipset they were using without updating their USD device ID's. We have
> > seen this a few times now and the only solution we have been able to
> > provide is to give the users instructions for blacklisting the
> > incorrect driver.
> >
> > I believe this has been discussed on this list previously.
> 
> Thanks and sorry for the noise.

P.S. your lucky it is only listed in 2 drivers. Some USB ID's
(mostly coming from Linksys) are known to have 4 different drivers
variating from Broadcom, Prism and Ralink. ;)

Ivo

      reply	other threads:[~2008-02-15 13:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-15  6:14 Both rt2500usb and rt73 claim USB device 148f:2573 Pavel Roskin
2008-02-15  6:24 ` Mark Wallis
2008-02-15  7:07   ` Pavel Roskin
2008-02-15 13:20     ` Ivo van Doorn [this message]

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