rt2500usb stopped working (vendor request error)

rt2500usb stopped working (vendor request error)

[dragoran]

Hello,
I was using rt2x00 with hostapd to create a AP and it worked fine in FC6 
with rt2x00-cvs-2007020803.
But after upgrading to F7 it stopped working. I am using kernel 
kernel-2.6.22.1-41.fc7 which have a recent wireless-dev copy of the 
driver but I just get this errors in dmesg:

[...]
phy0 -> rt2x00usb_vendor_request: Error - Vendor Request 0x07 failed for 
offset 0x04d0 with error -71.
phy0 -> rt2x00usb_vendor_request: Error - Vendor Request 0x07 failed for 
offset 0x04d0 with error -71.
phy0 -> rt2500usb_bbp_read: Error - PHY_CSR8 register busy. Read failed.
phy0 -> rt2x00usb_vendor_request: Error - Vendor Request 0x07 failed for 
offset 0x04e6 with error -71.
phy0 -> rt2x00usb_vendor_request: Error - Vendor Request 0x07 failed for 
offset 0x04d0 with error -71.
phy0 -> rt2x00usb_vendor_request: Error - Vendor Request 0x06 failed for 
offset 0x04ce with error -71.
phy0 -> rt2x00usb_vendor_request: Error - Vendor Request 0x07 failed for 
offset 0x04d0 with error -71.
phy0 -> rt2x00usb_vendor_request: Error - Vendor Request 0x06 failed for 
offset 0x04ce with error -71.
phy0 -> rt2x00usb_vendor_request: Error - Vendor Request 0x07 failed for 
offset 0x04d0 with error -71.
phy0 -> rt2x00usb_vendor_request: Error - Vendor Request 0x06 failed for 
offset 0x04ce with error -71.
phy0 -> rt2x00usb_vendor_request: Error - Vendor Request 0x07 failed for 
offset 0x04d0 with error -71.
phy0 -> rt2x00usb_vendor_request: Error - Vendor Request 0x06 failed for 
offset 0x04ce with error -71.
phy0 -> rt2x00usb_vendor_request: Error - Vendor Request 0x07 failed for 
offset 0x04d0 with error -71.
phy0 -> rt2x00usb_vendor_request: Error - Vendor Request 0x07 failed for 
offset 0x04d0 with error -71.
phy0 -> rt2x00usb_vendor_request: Error - Vendor Request 0x07 failed for 
offset 0x04d0 with error -71.
phy0 -> rt2x00usb_vendor_request: Error - Vendor Request 0x07 failed for 
offset 0x04d0 with error -71.
phy0 -> rt2x00usb_vendor_request: Error - Vendor Request 0x07 failed for 
offset 0x04d0 with error -71.
phy0 -> rt2500usb_bbp_read: Error - PHY_CSR8 register busy. Read failed.
[...]

Any idea whats going on?
Can I provide more info to help finding a solution?
I already reported it here before:
http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=4042
but got no usefull replies so I decided to try here.

P.S: please cc me when replying.

Re: rt2500usb stopped working (vendor request error)

[Ivo van Doorn]

Hi,

> I was using rt2x00 with hostapd to create a AP and it worked fine in FC6 
> with rt2x00-cvs-2007020803.
> But after upgrading to F7 it stopped working. I am using kernel 
> kernel-2.6.22.1-41.fc7 which have a recent wireless-dev copy of the 
> driver but I just get this errors in dmesg:

<... snip...>

> Any idea whats going on?
> Can I provide more info to help finding a solution?
> I already reported it here before:
> http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=4042
> but got no usefull replies so I decided to try here.

Could you retry with a more recent version?

Ivo

Re: rt2500usb stopped working (vendor request error)

[dragoran]

Ivo van Doorn wrote:
> Hi,
>
>   
>> I was using rt2x00 with hostapd to create a AP and it worked fine in FC6 
>> with rt2x00-cvs-2007020803.
>> But after upgrading to F7 it stopped working. I am using kernel 
>> kernel-2.6.22.1-41.fc7 which have a recent wireless-dev copy of the 
>> driver but I just get this errors in dmesg:
>>     
>
> <... snip...>
>
>   
>> Any idea whats going on?
>> Can I provide more info to help finding a solution?
>> I already reported it here before:
>> http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=4042
>> but got no usefull replies so I decided to try here.
>>     
>
> Could you retry with a more recent version?
>
>   
what do you mean by more recent?
its a some days old wireless-dev snapshot (31-07-2007).
has something changed in the past 2 days that could fix it?

Re: rt2500usb stopped working (vendor request error)

[Ivo van Doorn]

Hi,
 
> >> I was using rt2x00 with hostapd to create a AP and it worked fine in FC6 
> >> with rt2x00-cvs-2007020803.
> >> But after upgrading to F7 it stopped working. I am using kernel 
> >> kernel-2.6.22.1-41.fc7 which have a recent wireless-dev copy of the 
> >> driver but I just get this errors in dmesg:
> >>     
> >
> > <... snip...>
> >
> >   
> >> Any idea whats going on?
> >> Can I provide more info to help finding a solution?
> >> I already reported it here before:
> >> http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=4042
> >> but got no usefull replies so I decided to try here.
> >>     
> >
> > Could you retry with a more recent version?
> >
> >   
> what do you mean by more recent?
> its a some days old wireless-dev snapshot (31-07-2007).
> has something changed in the past 2 days that could fix it?

Well I don't know which rt2x00 version was shipped with 2.6.22.1-41-fc7,
not do I know when it was released. Your last posted on the forum dated
from July 13th.
And regarding the patches, last tuesday I have released rt2x00 2.0.5 which
was then merged with wireless-dev, but the release itself contained quite
a lot of patches...

Ivo

Re: rt2500usb stopped working (vendor request error)

[Ivo van Doorn]

Hi,

> I upgraded the kernel since than to  to  this version.
> 
> And regarding the patches, last tuesday I have released rt2x00 2.0.5 which
> > was then merged with wireless-dev, but the release itself contained quite
> > a lot of patches...
> 
> 
> ok I will compile a wireless-dev snapshot and when I get home and tell you
> if it worked or not.

Just an idea related to another bug report regarding vendor request errors,
do you have the USB stick plugged into a USB 1.1 port?
If so, could you edit rt2x00usb.h and change the line: 

#define REGISTER_TIMEOUT      20

And increase the value to something higher (up to 500) and see if that works better?

Thanks,

Ivo

Re: rt2500usb stopped working (vendor request error)

[dragoran]

Ivo van Doorn wrote:
> do you have the USB stick plugged into a USB 1.1 port?
> If so, could you edit rt2x00usb.h and change the line: 
>
> #define REGISTER_TIMEOUT      20
>
> And increase the value to something higher (up to 500) and see if that works better?
>   
> Just an idea related to another bug report regarding vendor request 
> errors,
1) tested todays snapshot:
same results.
2) increased the timeout didn't help.
"usb 2-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address"
so its a usb2 device.
any other ideas?

Re: rt2500usb stopped working (vendor request error)

[dragoran]

Andy Green wrote:
> Somebody in the thread at some point said:
>
>   
>> 2) increased the timeout didn't help.
>> "usb 2-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address"
>> so its a usb2 device.
>> any other ideas?
>>     
>
> Are other USB devices working okay on that machine with that kernel?
>
>   
mouse and usb-storage devices  are working fine.

Re: rt2500usb stopped working (vendor request error)

[Ivo van Doorn]

On Friday 03 August 2007, dragoran wrote:
> Ivo van Doorn wrote:
> > do you have the USB stick plugged into a USB 1.1 port?
> > If so, could you edit rt2x00usb.h and change the line: 
> >
> > #define REGISTER_TIMEOUT      20
> >
> > And increase the value to something higher (up to 500) and see if that works better?
> >   
> > Just an idea related to another bug report regarding vendor request 
> > errors,
> 1) tested todays snapshot:
> same results.
> 2) increased the timeout didn't help.
> "usb 2-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address"
> so its a usb2 device.
> any other ideas?

Nope not at this time,
I'll look into the issue some more and see what might cause this.

Ivo

Re: rt2500usb stopped working (vendor request error)

[Ivo van Doorn]

On Friday 03 August 2007, dragoran wrote:
> Ivo van Doorn wrote:
> > do you have the USB stick plugged into a USB 1.1 port?
> > If so, could you edit rt2x00usb.h and change the line: 
> >
> > #define REGISTER_TIMEOUT      20
> >
> > And increase the value to something higher (up to 500) and see if that works better?
> >   
> > Just an idea related to another bug report regarding vendor request 
> > errors,
> 1) tested todays snapshot:
> same results.
> 2) increased the timeout didn't help.
> "usb 2-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address"
> so its a usb2 device.
> any other ideas?

Have you tried using the legacy driver?
I'm curious if the same problem exist in there are well...

Ivo

Re: rt2500usb stopped working (vendor request error)

[dragoran]

no I havn't I will try it tomorrow and tell you if it worked.
but as I said before a earilier version of the driver worked before on
fc6 without any problems.

On 8/3/07, Ivo van Doorn <ivdoorn@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Friday 03 August 2007, dragoran wrote:
> > Ivo van Doorn wrote:
> > > do you have the USB stick plugged into a USB 1.1 port?
> > > If so, could you edit rt2x00usb.h and change the line:
> > >
> > > #define REGISTER_TIMEOUT      20
> > >
> > > And increase the value to something higher (up to 500) and see if that
> works better?
> > >
> > > Just an idea related to another bug report regarding vendor request
> > > errors,
> > 1) tested todays snapshot:
> > same results.
> > 2) increased the timeout didn't help.
> > "usb 2-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address"
> > so its a usb2 device.
> > any other ideas?
>
> Have you tried using the legacy driver?
> I'm curious if the same problem exist in there are well...
>
> Ivo
>

Re: rt2500usb stopped working (vendor request error)

[dragoran]

ok this makes sense.
is the legacy driver supported by hostapd?

On 8/3/07, Ivo van Doorn <ivdoorn@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Friday 03 August 2007, dragoran wrote:
> > no I havn't I will try it tomorrow and tell you if it worked.
> > but as I said before a earilier version of the driver worked before on
> > fc6 without any problems.
>
> Yes, but I want to rule out hardware problems completely.
> If legacy still works then there is nothing with the hardware,
> but indeed a driver problem.
> If the legacy driver shows the same problem, it might be a hardware problem.
>
> Ivo
>

Re: rt2500usb stopped working (vendor request error)

[Ivo van Doorn]

On Friday 03 August 2007, dragoran wrote:
> no I havn't I will try it tomorrow and tell you if it worked.
> but as I said before a earilier version of the driver worked before on
> fc6 without any problems.

Yes, but I want to rule out hardware problems completely.
If legacy still works then there is nothing with the hardware,
but indeed a driver problem.
If the legacy driver shows the same problem, it might be a hardware problem.

Ivo

Re: rt2500usb stopped working (vendor request error)

[dragoran]

thats what I am using it for....

On 8/3/07, Ivo van Doorn <ivdoorn@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Friday 03 August 2007, dragoran wrote:
> > ok this makes sense.
> > is the legacy driver supported by hostapd?
>
> Nope, there is no master mode support in the legacy drivers.
>
> Ivo
>
> > On 8/3/07, Ivo van Doorn <ivdoorn@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Friday 03 August 2007, dragoran wrote:
> > > > no I havn't I will try it tomorrow and tell you if it worked.
> > > > but as I said before a earilier version of the driver worked before on
> > > > fc6 without any problems.
> > >
> > > Yes, but I want to rule out hardware problems completely.
> > > If legacy still works then there is nothing with the hardware,
> > > but indeed a driver problem.
> > > If the legacy driver shows the same problem, it might be a hardware
> problem.
> > >
> > > Ivo
> > >
> >
>
>
>

Re: rt2500usb stopped working (vendor request error)

[Ivo van Doorn]

On Friday 03 August 2007, dragoran wrote:
> ok this makes sense.
> is the legacy driver supported by hostapd?

Nope, there is no master mode support in the legacy drivers.

Ivo

> On 8/3/07, Ivo van Doorn <ivdoorn@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Friday 03 August 2007, dragoran wrote:
> > > no I havn't I will try it tomorrow and tell you if it worked.
> > > but as I said before a earilier version of the driver worked before on
> > > fc6 without any problems.
> >
> > Yes, but I want to rule out hardware problems completely.
> > If legacy still works then there is nothing with the hardware,
> > but indeed a driver problem.
> > If the legacy driver shows the same problem, it might be a hardware problem.
> >
> > Ivo
> >
> 

Re: rt2500usb stopped working (vendor request error)

[dragoran]

ok will test a connection to my laptop via ad-hoc to see if it works.
but I can't do anything today so tomorrow ;)
thx for your help.

On 8/3/07, Ivo van Doorn <ivdoorn@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Friday 03 August 2007, dragoran wrote:
> > thats what I am using it for....
>
> I understand, but if you could test the legacy driver
> for any other mode to see if at least the hardware is
> all right.
> Managed and adhoc mode would already give a good
> idea about any possible hardware problems.
>
> Ivo
>

Re: rt2500usb stopped working (vendor request error)

[Ivo van Doorn]

On Friday 03 August 2007, dragoran wrote:
> thats what I am using it for....

I understand, but if you could test the legacy driver
for any other mode to see if at least the hardware is
all right.
Managed and adhoc mode would already give a good
idea about any possible hardware problems.

Ivo

Re: rt2500usb stopped working (vendor request error)

[dragoran]

Ivo van Doorn wrote:
> On Friday 03 August 2007, dragoran wrote:
>   
>> thats what I am using it for....
>>     
>
> I understand, but if you could test the legacy driver
> for any other mode to see if at least the hardware is
> all right.
> Managed and adhoc mode would already give a good
> idea about any possible hardware problems.
>
>   
while testing the lagacy driver I got this messages:
usb 2-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4
usb 2-2: unable to read config index 0 descriptor/start
usb 2-2: chopping to 0 config(s)
usb 2-2: string descriptor 0 read error: -71
usb 2-2: string descriptor 0 read error: -71
usb 2-2: string descriptor 0 read error: -71
usb 2-2: no configuration chosen from 0 choices
and nothing worked....

Re: rt2500usb stopped working (vendor request error)

[Luis Correia]

Well, it may be an hardware error you got on your stick.

That or it is one of those wrongly named sticks which are actually
rt73... but i don't really know.

One last test you could do, go to a friend that uses Windoze and see
if it works as a client and if yes, which driver did it detect, rt73
or rt2500usb.

Luis

On 8/4/07, dragoran <drago01@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ivo van Doorn wrote:
> > On Friday 03 August 2007, dragoran wrote:
> >
> >> thats what I am using it for....
> >>
> >
> > I understand, but if you could test the legacy driver
> > for any other mode to see if at least the hardware is
> > all right.
> > Managed and adhoc mode would already give a good
> > idea about any possible hardware problems.
> >
> >
> while testing the lagacy driver I got this messages:
> usb 2-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4
> usb 2-2: unable to read config index 0 descriptor/start
> usb 2-2: chopping to 0 config(s)
> usb 2-2: string descriptor 0 read error: -71
> usb 2-2: string descriptor 0 read error: -71
> usb 2-2: string descriptor 0 read error: -71
> usb 2-2: no configuration chosen from 0 choices
> and nothing worked....
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Re: rt2500usb stopped working (vendor request error)

[Ivo van Doorn]

On Saturday 04 August 2007, Luis Correia wrote:
> Well, it may be an hardware error you got on your stick.

Nope, very doubtfully.
When he is using the latest version there would be a big warning
"Not an rt2500usb device" and the driver would halt loading after that.

> That or it is one of those wrongly named sticks which are actually
> rt73... but i don't really know.
> 
> One last test you could do, go to a friend that uses Windoze and see
> if it works as a client and if yes, which driver did it detect, rt73
> or rt2500usb.

Hmm checking if at least it works on windows would be an idea,
but I am really starting to suspect hardware problems...

Ivo
 
> On 8/4/07, dragoran <drago01@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Ivo van Doorn wrote:
> > > On Friday 03 August 2007, dragoran wrote:
> > >
> > >> thats what I am using it for....
> > >>
> > >
> > > I understand, but if you could test the legacy driver
> > > for any other mode to see if at least the hardware is
> > > all right.
> > > Managed and adhoc mode would already give a good
> > > idea about any possible hardware problems.
> > >
> > >
> > while testing the lagacy driver I got this messages:
> > usb 2-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4
> > usb 2-2: unable to read config index 0 descriptor/start
> > usb 2-2: chopping to 0 config(s)
> > usb 2-2: string descriptor 0 read error: -71
> > usb 2-2: string descriptor 0 read error: -71
> > usb 2-2: string descriptor 0 read error: -71
> > usb 2-2: no configuration chosen from 0 choices
> > and nothing worked....
> > -
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> >
> 

Re: rt2500usb stopped working (vendor request error)

[dragoran]

Ivo van Doorn wrote:
> On Saturday 04 August 2007, Luis Correia wrote:
>   
>> Well, it may be an hardware error you got on your stick.
>>     
>
> Nope, very doubtfully.
> When he is using the latest version there would be a big warning
> "Not an rt2500usb device" and the driver would halt loading after that.
>
>   
>> That or it is one of those wrongly named sticks which are actually
>> rt73... but i don't really know.
>>
>> One last test you could do, go to a friend that uses Windoze and see
>> if it works as a client and if yes, which driver did it detect, rt73
>> or rt2500usb.
>>     
>
> Hmm checking if at least it works on windows would be an idea,
> but I am really starting to suspect hardware problems...
>
>   
ok will test in on my fc6 server (where the last working driver still 
builds) and see if this one works.
if this does not work too I will test on windows to make sure thats a hw 
problem.