From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hans Ulli Kroll Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 15:50:30 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v6 1/1] rtl8821au: new package In-Reply-To: <1437691280-23926-1-git-send-email-christian@paral.in> References: <1437691280-23926-1-git-send-email-christian@paral.in> Message-ID: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hi all, Note : I'm new on the list, so I had insert this tread by hand ! I'm the one working on the RTL8821AU driver. On Thu, 23 Jul 2015, Christian Stewart wrote: > Adding a kernel module based USB wifi driver. There is no official > version of this driver that works properly on ARM and with newer USB > WiFi cards. This driver version builds module 8821au and is based on a > kernel module release from ASUS with various fixes integrated in. This message will be commited please change. The I think the difference between the version from ASUS and mine based the one Edimax are in the handling of the LED. Maybe there are more ... > I've switched to use ulli-kroll's branch of rtl8821au. While it's based > on an older vendor version, it has binary firmware and around ~1800 > commits of work to improve the driver. I think this work is probably > more valuable than the vendor's updates. > -> git send-email --compose Will add some message an intreductory message > --- /dev/null > +++ b/package/rtl8821au/0001-disable-default-debug.patch I do add some kind of "disable debug message" This will take some time, I'm currently working in the code. > +config BR2_PACKAGE_RTL8821AU > + bool "rtl8821au" > + depends on BR2_LINUX_KERNEL > + help > + rtl8821au wifi driver > + > + https://github.com/paralin/rtl8821au Please fix this URL ! Maybe add some line "out of tree driver" And the USB3 issue I found inthe HW as you can read in Readme.md Greetings from Cologne Hans Ulli Kroll