Re: ar5523 Gigaset USB Adapter 108 issue

["Yannik Völker" <yannikv@yahoo.de>]

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Am 18.10.2013 18:16, schrieb Oleksij Rempel:
> Am 18.10.2013 17:38, schrieb Yannik Völker:
>> Am 18.10.2013 17:07, schrieb Oleksij Rempel:
>>> Am 18.10.2013 16:49, schrieb Alan Stern:
>>>> Yannik, you should always use Reply-To-All so that your
>>>> messages get sent to the mailing list and not just to me.
>>>> 
>>>> On Thu, 17 Oct 2013, Yannik Völker wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Am 07.08.2013 19:34, schrieb Alan Stern:
>>>>>> Please post two usbmon traces, one showing the failure
>>>>>> on your current system and the other showing the adapter
>>>>>> running correctly under a 32-bit kernel.  Instructions
>>>>>> for usbmon are in the kernel source file
>>>>>> Documentation/usb/usbmon.txt.
>>>>> I never got it to work under a 32-bit kernel, i was just
>>>>> able to utilize a windows32 driver using ndiswrapper.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Now i got it to "work". I randomly found out that the
>>>>> ar5523 driver actually works when you load it after you
>>>>> unload ndiswrapper so the following steps make it work: 1.
>>>>> modprobe ndiswrapper 2. plug in device 3. connect to wlan
>>>>> using ndiswrapper and disconnect again (might be optional)
>>>>> 4. modprobe -r ndiswrapper 5. modprobe ar5523 6. connect to
>>>>> wlan log for that is attatched as wlanthennative2.log
>> 
>> 
>>> It sounds like linux driver didn't recognised usb id and
>>> didn't uploaded firmware, or there was no firmware to upload.
>> there is firmware (/lib/firmware/ar5523.bin exists) but it does
>> not even get touched (i renamed the file and the error did not
>> change at all)
> 
> find first usbid of your adapter (it will be changed after
> firmware upload). And try to force driver to use this id: modprobe
> -v ar5523 echo 07d1 3a0d > /sys/bus/usb/drivers/ar5523/new_id
> 
> instead of "07d1 3a0d" use your id.
> 

# lsusb
…
Bus 003 Device 011: ID 129b:160c CyberTAN Technology Siemens
S30853-S1038-R351 802.11g Wireless Adapter [Atheros AR5523]
…

# modprobe ar5523
# echo 129b 160c > /sys/bus/usb/drivers/ar5523/new_id
<plugging device in>
syslog:
Oct 18 18:27:47 yannik-desktop kernel: [ 8751.447784] usbcore:
registered new interface driver ar5523
Oct 18 18:28:25 yannik-desktop kernel: [ 8789.036912] usb 3-14: new
high-speed USB device number 12 using xhci_hcd
Oct 18 18:28:25 yannik-desktop kernel: [ 8789.053995] usb 3-14: New
USB device found, idVendor=129b, idProduct=160c
Oct 18 18:28:25 yannik-desktop kernel: [ 8789.054005] usb 3-14: New
USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
Oct 18 18:28:25 yannik-desktop kernel: [ 8789.054010] usb 3-14:
Product: AR5523
Oct 18 18:28:25 yannik-desktop kernel: [ 8789.054015] usb 3-14:
Manufacturer: Atheros Communications Inc
Oct 18 18:28:25 yannik-desktop kernel: [ 8789.054019] usb 3-14:
SerialNumber: 1.0
Oct 18 18:28:27 yannik-desktop kernel: [ 8791.052313] usb 3-14:
timeout waiting for command 01 reply
Oct 18 18:28:27 yannik-desktop kernel: [ 8791.052323] usb 3-14: could
not initialize adapter
Oct 18 18:28:27 yannik-desktop kernel: [ 8791.052359] usb 3-14: RX USB
error -2.
Oct 18 18:28:27 yannik-desktop kernel: [ 8791.052378] usb 3-14: error
- -1 when submitting rx urb
Oct 18 18:28:27 yannik-desktop kernel: [ 8791.052504] ar5523: probe of
3-14:1.0 failed with error -110

> Besidy, what kernel version are you using? May be it is too old..
> 
3.11.0-12-generic
it is my understanding that the ar5523 driver was included from 3.8 on.
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Yannik Völker
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