From: "Arend van Spriel" <arend@broadcom.com>
To: "Larry Finger" <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: "Franky Lin" <frankyl@broadcom.com>,
linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Driver for USB device with ID 050d:615a
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 13:01:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5087CA82.5070902@broadcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5087035E.9010609@lwfinger.net>
On 10/23/2012 10:51 PM, Larry Finger wrote:
> Arend and Franky,
>
> I recently purchased a Belkin N600 DB USB dongle on Ebay. I wanted to
> get the model with a Realtek RTL8192DU chip. Instead I got a version
> with a Broadcom chip, which lsusb identifies as
>
> Bus 001 Device 005: ID 050d:615a Belkin Components F7D4101 / F9L1101
> 802.11abgn Wireless Adapter [Broadcom BCM4323]
>
> I have since acquired a different device with the Realtek chip, thus I
> could return the Belkin device; however, the cost was minimal and I will
> keep it if there is a driver for it. Is it a brcmfmac device that is not
> yet in the device tables, or is it some other sort of unit that may
> never be supported under Linux?
Hi Larry,
I went digging and this chip requires a different driver model
(basically a split stack between host and dongle). This model is being
abandoned for newer chips so we decided not to support it in mainline linux.
Gr. AvS
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-24 11:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-23 20:51 Driver for USB device with ID 050d:615a Larry Finger
2012-10-24 11:01 ` Arend van Spriel [this message]
2012-10-24 13:59 ` Larry Finger
2012-10-24 16:04 ` Rafał Miłecki
2012-10-24 16:35 ` Arend van Spriel
2012-12-16 1:54 ` Realtek RTL8192DU Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
2012-12-16 4:00 ` Larry Finger
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