From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail-bw0-f227.google.com ([209.85.218.227]:55065 "EHLO mail-bw0-f227.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751628AbZKRH6q (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:58:46 -0500 Received: by bwz27 with SMTP id 27so797306bwz.21 for ; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:58:51 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4B03A939.5000303@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:58:49 +0100 From: Piotr Findeisen MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stefan Lippers-Hollmann CC: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: unsupported TL-WN422G (0cf3:1006) References: <4B02CD95.2010805@gmail.com> <200911171758.53596.s.L-H@gmx.de> <200911180044.45287.s.L-H@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <200911180044.45287.s.L-H@gmx.de> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig24510D02F31667BDC6D80B60" Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig24510D02F31667BDC6D80B60 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, Stefan! Thank you for all the help! Unless i will be able to exchange my card with one based on zydas chipset and if i will have some free time, I'll contact ath9_htc developers (or the wiki) for any further reference and/or testing. Funny think about this USB card is that, when I plugged it into my laptop, it made my broken broadcom PCI-E card work again immediately, so money was not lost completely :) Best regards, Piotr On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 00:44, Stefan Lippers-Hollmann > wrote: > Hi > > On Wednesday 18 November 2009, Piotr Findeisen wrote: > > Hi, Stefan! > > Thanks for your explanation! > > > > On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 17:58, Stefan Lippers-Hollmann > wrote: > > > > > If you take a look at the vendor's windows driver for TP-LINK > WN422G *v2*, > > > > how can I know I have v2 of the device? > > > > > 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.1006% =3D ATHER_DEV_1006.ndi, =20 > USB\VID_0CF3&PID_1006 > ^^^^ ^= ^^^ > Which means your device is TP-LINK WN422G v2 - and therefore AR9271. > > > OK, I found this section on the CD with the drivers but my product id= is > > 1006. How do you know it's AR9271 chipset and not, say, AR1006? > > I found /AR9271/i on the CD in driver files for Windows 2000, XP, XP6= 4. > > Vista driver files don't have this substring anywhere (they have > '9271' in > > netathur.inf 6 times, and '1006' is 6 times in analogus lines as well= ). > > > > > At this moment a new driver called ath9k_htc is under (early) > development: > > > http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath9k_htc > > > > What does 'early' mean in this context? Is it worth try or should i > look for > > replacement? > > Disclaimer, I neither have access to an AR9271 device, nor am familiar > with > its development state, therefore I base this on the afforementioned dri= ver > wiki page and the reference code. > > It's not merged in 2.6.32, wireless-next (~=3D 2.6.33) or wireless-test= ing > yet and http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath9k_htc#Status is= > pretty explicit about its state, namely that it doesn't actually transm= it > any data yet. Even though development seems to be pretty active and > showing > quite some potential, it will likely take several months before it beco= mes > enduser compatible. > > Regards > Stefan Lippers-Hollmann --------------enig24510D02F31667BDC6D80B60 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAksDqTkACgkQhIjjAqQbQwNKqACgpsf0MuPKSPcOnKZIgCJrwZOa FoIAoK50DZeLXe/6S97NI44u+eVwX6lk =aHO3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig24510D02F31667BDC6D80B60--