From: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
To: Pontus Fuchs <pontus.fuchs@gmail.com>
Cc: linville@tuxdriver.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
hch@lst.de, s.L-H@gmx.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] Driver for the ar5523 chipset
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 23:22:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201210162322.20703.chunkeey@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1350415769-8271-1-git-send-email-pontus.fuchs@gmail.com>
On Tuesday, October 16, 2012 09:29:25 PM Pontus Fuchs wrote:
> Some time ago I found an old USB wireless dongle in my drawer. I was
> surprised it wasn't supported in Linux. Google gave me an old
> unfinished driver created by Christoph Hellwig. Armed with some
> spare time and naivity I picked up where Christoph left in 2007 and
> now it's actually working pretty fine. It does not crash for me and
> throughput is decent.
>
> It's based on the FreeBSD driver, which in turn is based on the
> reverse engineered Windows driver, hence a very limited feature set.
> Not even HW crypto offload is supported. But at least there is a
> firmware which has a suitable license:
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/contrib/dev/uath/ar5523.bin.uu
>
> Changes v1 to v2:
>
> * Bugfix: Avoid % 512 transfer sizes on TX as the FW will hang.
Have you tried setting "urb->transfer_flags |= URB_ZERO_PACKET;"
to your outgoing urbs? This might fix the hang as well and you
don't need any ugly skb_put.
Regards,
Chr
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-16 21:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-16 19:29 [PATCH v2 0/4] Driver for the ar5523 chipset Pontus Fuchs
2012-10-16 19:29 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] ar5523: Add main driver file Pontus Fuchs
2012-10-23 13:52 ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-10-16 19:29 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] ar5523: Add driver header file Pontus Fuchs
2012-10-16 19:29 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] Add Firmware API " Pontus Fuchs
2012-10-16 19:29 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] Add Kconfig and Makefile. Add MAINTAINERS entry Pontus Fuchs
2012-10-16 21:22 ` Christian Lamparter [this message]
2012-10-18 8:48 ` [PATCH v2 0/4] Driver for the ar5523 chipset Pontus Fuchs
2012-10-18 8:59 ` Hauke Mehrtens
2012-10-18 10:31 ` Pontus Fuchs
2012-10-23 13:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
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