Re: r8188eu driver in 5.15 only shows wifi networks on channel 11

Zameer Manji
2021-11-06T17:17:17Z

Hello,

I would be happy to test the patch. I am not an experienced git user
when it comes to
taking patches from mailing lists so I would appreciate it if a commit
was pushed to a
git repository that I could pull down.

On Sat, Nov 6, 2021 at 12:59 PM Phillip Potter <phil@philpotter.co.uk> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Nov 06, 2021 at 11:48:08AM -0400, Zameer Manji wrote:
> > Hello All,
> >
> > I have bisected the regression to
> > ```
> > commit 221abd4d478ab52fd17de9287fa302ac0e06f7b3
> > Author: Fabio M. De Francesco <fmdefrancesco@gmail.com>
> > Date: Thu Aug 12 02:25:19 2021 +0200
> >
> > staging: r8188eu: Remove no more necessary definitions and code
> > ```
> >
> > Prior to this change the device can see all networks on all channels.
> > With this change, the device can only see networks on channel 11.
> > I suspect this might be specific to the RTL8188EUS variant
> > of the hardware. Unfortunately I don't know enough about
> > this driver or the hardware to understand where the issue
> > is in the change.
> >
> > Full bisection log is here
> > ```
>
> Hi Zameer,
>
> Thanks for doing this bisection, super useful. I will have a play after
> my daughter has gone to bed and see if I can see anything :-)
>
> Assuming me or someone else finds the cause, would you be happy to test
> a patch?
>
> Regards,
> Phil

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Zameer Manji