From: Gertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@gmail.com>
To: Luis Correia <luis.f.correia@gmail.com>
Cc: "Németh Márton" <nm127@freemail.hu>,
"Ivo van Doorn" <IvDoorn@gmail.com>,
"Linux Wireless List" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
users@rt2x00.serialmonkey.com
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.33 + Edimax EW-7318Ug?
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:29:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B901811.2030708@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <efe7343f1003032339x32bd512et9eebe0518546cfee@mail.gmail.com>
On 03/04/10 08:39, Luis Correia wrote:
> Hi!
>
> 2010/3/4 Németh Márton <nm127@freemail.hu>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm new to the Edimax EW-7318Ug ( http://www.edimax.com/en/produce_detail.php?pd_id=3&pl1_id=1&pl2_id=44 )
>> device. I could find out so far that there are different drivers for Linux
>> which can be used with this device. I think this device have the RT73 chip.
>>
>> I tried Linux kernel 2.6.33, compiled with CONFIG_RT2X00=m and CONFIG_RT2X00_DEBUG=y
>> (the full kernel config is attached). I copied the rt73.bin from
>> http://www.edimax.com/images/Image/driver/Linux%20driver/Wireless/USB%20adaptor/2008_0506_RT73_Linux_STA_Drv1.1.0.1.tar.zip
>> to /lib/firmware/rt73.bin .
>
> While I'm not 100% sure, this may be one of those devices thas has
> it's ID in both rt2500usb and rt73usb.
>
> Besides prying it open to see which is the actual chip used, there is
> little we can do, software side, to be sure of which exact driver
> should be used.
>
> But to be honest, I can't really recall which exact driver ID conflict.
>
By the looks of it (at the Edimax website) this is a true rt73 device. And that seems
to be supported by the dmesg output posted by Németh, where the loading of the rt2500usb
driver fails.
Németh, can you blacklist the auto-loading of the rt2500usb device (see
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/avoid-linux-kernel-module-driver-autoloading.html for how
to do this)?
---
Gertjan.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-04 20:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-04 6:24 Linux 2.6.33 + Edimax EW-7318Ug? Németh Márton
2010-03-04 7:39 ` Luis Correia
2010-03-04 20:29 ` Gertjan van Wingerde [this message]
2010-03-05 6:49 ` Németh Márton
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