From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Josh Lehan <krellan@krellan.com>, Pavel Machek <pma@sysgo.com>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: working usb wifi card, that is still possible to buy
Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 15:12:20 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CD46524.5010100@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ff5cf9bdd23aa256b379521d4c4263d8@localhost>
On 11/05/2010 12:54 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
>
> On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 08:15:26 -0500, Larry Finger
>> The Realtek RTL8712 (aka RTL8192U) and found in the D-Link DWA 130, has
> a
>> driver
>> in 2.6.37 (r8712u). Although not based on mac80211, thus found in
> staging,
>> the
>> driver is extremely stable - my connection never drops out. With an
> 802.11n
>> router, I get transmission throughput of up to 70 Mb/s.
>
> That definitely requires USB 2 though, and I suspect that
> nobody actually ever tests their devices on a 1.1 only
> controller like Pavel was asking for.
I have tested on 1.1 and it works. The rate mechanism of that non-mac80211
driver ends up at 54M with a maximum transmission rate of 7.1 Mb/s. That must be
the maximum that USB 1.1 can handle.
Larry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-05 20:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-03 9:24 working usb wifi card, that is still possible to buy Pavel Machek
2010-11-05 9:26 ` Josh Lehan
2010-11-05 13:15 ` Larry Finger
2010-11-05 17:54 ` Johannes Berg
2010-11-05 20:12 ` Larry Finger [this message]
2010-11-06 10:43 ` Christian Lamparter
2010-11-08 7:19 ` Pavel Machek
2010-11-24 8:16 ` Pavel Machek
2010-11-24 8:42 ` Johannes Berg
2010-11-24 9:57 ` Pavel Machek
2010-11-24 13:13 ` Pavel Machek
2010-11-24 15:48 ` Larry Finger
2010-11-26 8:31 ` ath9k_htc vs. powerpc (was Re: working usb wifi card, that is still possible to buy) Pavel Machek
2010-11-26 10:20 ` Pavel Machek
2010-11-26 11:27 ` Pavel Machek
2010-11-26 11:35 ` [PATCH] ath9k_htc: cleanup eeprom endiannes handling Pavel Machek
2010-11-26 11:37 ` [PATCH?] do structures need to be packed? [was Re: ath9k_htc vs. powerpc (was Re: working usb wifi card, that is still possible to buy)] Pavel Machek
2010-11-26 11:47 ` ath9k_htc vs. powerpc (was Re: working usb wifi card, that is still possible to buy) Sujith
2010-11-26 12:37 ` Pavel Machek
2010-11-29 9:58 ` [PATCH] fix endianity on ath9k_htc Pavel Machek
2010-11-29 11:46 ` [ath9k-devel] " Felix Fietkau
2010-11-29 12:07 ` Pavel Machek
2010-11-29 12:11 ` [patch] remove unneeded prototype " Pavel Machek
2010-11-29 9:59 ` [PATCH] ath9k_htc cleanups Pavel Machek
2010-11-29 11:34 ` [PATCH] ath9k_htc more cleanups Pavel Machek
2010-11-29 10:01 ` ath9k_htc vs. powerpc (was Re: working usb wifi card, that is still possible to buy) Pavel Machek
2010-11-29 12:37 ` Sujith
2010-11-29 12:48 ` Pavel Machek
2010-11-29 12:57 ` Pavel Machek
2010-11-29 13:28 ` Sujith
2010-11-29 12:16 ` Sujith
2010-12-06 8:37 ` working usb wifi card, that is still possible to buy Pavel Machek
2010-12-06 15:30 ` Larry Finger
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