Driver for USB device with ID 050d:615a

Driver for USB device with ID 050d:615a

[Larry Finger]

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?

Thanks,

Larry

Re: Driver for USB device with ID 050d:615a

[Arend van Spriel]

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

Re: Driver for USB device with ID 050d:615a

[Larry Finger]

On 10/24/2012 06:01 AM, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> 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.

Thanks for the info. I will try to return the device.

Larry

Re: Driver for USB device with ID 050d:615a

[Rafał Miłecki]

2012/10/24 Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>:
> 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.

What do you think about listing not supported chipsets on your
brcm80211 wiki page? Thay way users will get clear overview of this
situation. I think I already heard similar answer about BCM43236 V2
(found by Hauke in his router).

Btw. your http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/brcm80211
doesn't say anything about BCM43143, which (I believe) is supported by
brcmfmac.
Oh and one more thing: I believe putting minimal kernel version
requires is also a good idea. Something like:
"BCM43143 - supported since 3.123"

-- 
Rafał

Re: Driver for USB device with ID 050d:615a

[Arend van Spriel]

On 10/24/2012 06:04 PM, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> 2012/10/24 Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>:
>> 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 It
>>> 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.
>
> What do you think about listing not supported chipsets on your
> brcm80211 wiki page? Thay way users will get clear overview of this
> situation. I think I already heard similar answer about BCM43236 V2
> (found by Hauke in his router).

It has been suggested before (by you if I recall correctly). Howeverm 
the number of chip programs is extensive and it is hard to find out 
which went into production and are available to end-users. So we decided 
only list what we know.

> Btw. your http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/brcm80211
> doesn't say anything about BCM43143, which (I believe) is supported by
> brcmfmac.
> Oh and one more thing: I believe putting minimal kernel version
> requires is also a good idea. Something like:
> "BCM43143 - supported since 3.123"
>

The bcm43143 (and bcm43242) support is in the driver, but the firmware 
for these chips have not been released yet. With that I mean not 
released at all so we can not submit any firmware for those chips to the 
linux-firmware git repository. Consequently, it does not make sense to 
list them on wireless.kernel.org.

Thanks for the kernel version suggestion. I will add that info although 
there is always compat-wireless...eh...compat-drivers ;-)

Gr. AvS

Realtek RTL8192DU

[Stefan Lippers-Hollmann]

Hi

On Tuesday 23 October 2012, 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.
[…] 
> I have since acquired a different device with the Realtek chip, thus I could 
> return the Belkin device;
[…]

As I just got hold of a Realtek RTL8192DU device (DeLock 88540[1]), I'm
curious if you had a go with a driver for this chipset. The vendor 
driver seems to have issues with 64 bit operation (and kernel 3.7).

usb 3-1.1: new high-speed USB device number 6 using ehci_hcd
usb 3-1.1: New USB device found, idVendor=0bda, idProduct=8194
usb 3-1.1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
usb 3-1.1: Product: 802.11n NIC
usb 3-1.1: Manufacturer: Realtek
usb 3-1.1: SerialNumber: 00e04c000001

Regards
	Stefan Lippers-Hollmann

[1]	http://www.delock.com/produkte/G_88540/merkmale.html?setLanguage=en

Re: Realtek RTL8192DU

[Larry Finger]

On 12/15/2012 07:54 PM, Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote:
>
> As I just got hold of a Realtek RTL8192DU device (DeLock 88540[1]), I'm
> curious if you had a go with a driver for this chipset. The vendor
> driver seems to have issues with 64 bit operation (and kernel 3.7).
>
> usb 3-1.1: new high-speed USB device number 6 using ehci_hcd
> usb 3-1.1: New USB device found, idVendor=0bda, idProduct=8194
> usb 3-1.1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
> usb 3-1.1: Product: 802.11n NIC
> usb 3-1.1: Manufacturer: Realtek
> usb 3-1.1: SerialNumber: 00e04c000001

Stefan,

I have made some progress with the driver merged into staging. In addition, I 
have fixed the problems with 64-bit operation and the lack of kernel_thread() in 
3.7 for driver rtl8192DU_linux_v4.0.0_5260.20120921. As I'm not sure the list 
wants to get the patch, I'll send it separately via private email.

Your tests will be useful as my device has USB ID 0bda:8193.

Larry