Re: unsupported TL-WN422G (0cf3:1006)

["Stefan Lippers-Hollmann" <s.L-H@gmx.de>]

Hi

On Tuesday 17 November 2009, Piotr Findeisen wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I've bought TP-LINK WN422G USB wireless card with Zydas chipset (as
> stated by the seller) in the hope it will be supported by zd1211rw
> driver (listed here [1]), but it seems it's not.
> I've tried to find help on linuxforums.org <http://linuxforums.org> [2]
> — the only open option is to use ndiswrapper, which (a) is reported not
> to work earlier in the thread and (b) is the last option for me to
> consider. Search in linux-wireless's archives yielded only a result [3]
> with a patch included in my kernel (Ubuntu-2.6.31-14.48).
> 
> My card's vendor:product id is 0cf3:1006 (different that the one listed
> [1] for WN422G).
[...]

If you take a look at the vendor's windows driver for TP-LINK WN422G *v2*,
it becomes obvious that the device does not use the ZyDAS zd1211/ Atheros 
5007UG cipset, but has switched to the new Atheros AR9271 chipset (which 
technically is a 150 MBit/s 802.11n "lite" chipset family) instead.

%ATHER.DeviceDesc.9271% = ATHER_DEV_9271.ndi,     USB\VID_0CF3&PID_9271
%ATHER.DeviceDesc.7010% = ATHER_DEV_7010.ndi,     USB\VID_0CF3&PID_7010
%ATHER.DeviceDesc.1006% = ATHER_DEV_1006.ndi,     USB\VID_0CF3&PID_1006

At this moment a new driver called ath9k_htc is under (early) development:
	http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath9k_htc

Regards
	Stefan Lippers-Hollmann