Re: [RFC] ar9170usb: add ar9170 usbid

[Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>]

On Tuesday 15 September 2009 13:37:13 Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 September 2009, Christian Lamparter wrote:
> > On Tuesday 15 September 2009 07:52:19 Fabian Lenz wrote:
> > > Here the output of lsusb: 
> > > 
> > > Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0cf3:1002 Atheros Communications, Inc.
> > 
> > they made two revisions (v1 and v2).
> > Do you know which one you've got?
> 
> v1 (FCC ID: TE7WN821NV1) at least identifies itself as:
> ID 0cf3:9170 Atheros Communications, Inc. AR9170 802.11n
thanks! so, they sticked with the correct id for v1.

> > > and the product page of the WLAN stick:
> > > 
> > > http://www.tp-link.com/products/product_des.asp?id=140
> > > 
> > > I added { USB_DEVICE(0x0cf3, 0x1002) } to the usb.c file manually some time 
> > > ago and got my stick to work but the connection is somewhat unstable... but 
> > > that's another story.
> > what firmware image do you use?
> > the two-stage (ar9170-1.fw & ar9170-2.fw) firmware should work.
> > for one-stage you should use a bleeding edge wireless-testing tree.
> 
> On this TL-WN821N v1 the one-stage (as published in binary from by Atheros,
> so far I had problems with my self compiled one) and two-stage firmwares 
> work equally well on a vanilla 2.6.31 kernel:
the catch here is that some devices won't work with the
two-stage firmware (e.g: AVM FRITZ!WLAN USB Stick N 2.4 )

That's why the delay.

Regards,
	Chr