New device for ar5523

New device for ar5523

[Dmitry Zganyaiko]

Hi! I'm using usb wireless adaptor named
07d1:3a0d D-Link System DWA-120 802.11g Wireless 108G (taken from lsusb)

System is Debian wheezy with 3.8 kernel taken from ubuntu reps. But after launch this adaptor doesn't work: no any new network interfaces is shown in ifconfig.

As far as I understood, such vendor:product (07d1:3a0d) isn't specified in drivers/net/wireless/ath/ar5523/ar5523.c, and therefore the driver doesn't recognise my device. Firmware 'ar5523.bin' is located in /usr/local/lib/firmware.

What can I do to make this adaptor work? Only add that v:p pair to ar5523.c and recompile it? Just if that can be done without compiling - it will be great.

Regards,
Dmitry.

Re: New device for ar5523

[Larry Finger]

On 07/09/2013 03:59 AM, Dmitry Zganyaiko wrote:
> Hi! I'm using usb wireless adaptor named
> 07d1:3a0d D-Link System DWA-120 802.11g Wireless 108G (taken from lsusb)
>
> System is Debian wheezy with 3.8 kernel taken from ubuntu reps. But after launch this adaptor doesn't work: no any new network interfaces is shown in ifconfig.
>
> As far as I understood, such vendor:product (07d1:3a0d) isn't specified in drivers/net/wireless/ath/ar5523/ar5523.c, and therefore the driver doesn't recognise my device. Firmware 'ar5523.bin' is located in /usr/local/lib/firmware.
>
> What can I do to make this adaptor work? Only add that v:p pair to ar5523.c and recompile it? Just if that can be done without compiling - it will be great.

You can test to see if it works with that kernel with the following commands (as 
root):

modprobe -v ar5523
echo 07d1 3a0d > /sys/bus/usb/drivers/ar5523/new_id

If the device would work by adding that USB ID to the device table, then the 
above commands should accomplish the same result. Note - these commands will 
need to be re-entered after every reload of ar5523.

Larry

Re: New device for ar5523

[Dmitry Zganyaiko]

Hi! Thank you, that's helped and after entering these commands device
began to work, but:

But after some network activity through this device (`apt-get update`
- about ~2-3 MB downloaded and that was about ~60 secs after
successful modprobe) interface was deleted with following logs in
dmesg:

[362.612028] usb 1-3: TX queue stuck (tot 2 pend 2)
[362.612036] usb 1-3: Will restart dongle
[362.612272] usb 1-3: USB disconnect, device number 3
[362.612769] wlan0: deauthenticating from 90:f6:52:c6:3c:eb by local
choice (reason=3)
... <some logs from cfg80211 module>
[363.108058] usb 1-3: new high-speed USB device number 6 using ehci-pci
[363.241150] usb 1-3: New USB device found, idVendor=07d1, idProduct=3a0d
[363.241157] usb 1-3: New USB device string: Mfr=1, Product=2, Serial Number = 3
... <just another device info>
[365.240030] usb 1-3: timeout waiting for command reply
[365.240038] usb 1-3: could not initialize adapter
[365.240263] usb 1-3: RX USB error -2.
[365.240271] usb 1-3: error -1 when submitting rx usb
[365.240334] ar5523: probe of 1-3:1.0 failed with error -110

Switching off and ejecting adapter doesn't help: the same error repeated:
> ar5523: probe of 1-3:1.0 failed with error -110

But I found that rebooting to Windows makes the adapter working. After
that I rebooted back to Linux and adapter began to work about ~60
secs, but after that the same situation as described above repeated.

Also I noted following: without rebooting to Windows - just after
rebooting Linux - adapter does not work: _only_ after rebooting to
Windows and only now back to Linux. Windows is doing something with
adapter I do not know what, but after that adapter works for about 1
minute and disconnected with logs above.

What can I do now to solve that problem?
Dmitry.

On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 4:36 PM, Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> wrote:
> On 07/09/2013 03:59 AM, Dmitry Zganyaiko wrote:
>>
>> Hi! I'm using usb wireless adaptor named
>> 07d1:3a0d D-Link System DWA-120 802.11g Wireless 108G (taken from lsusb)
>>
>> System is Debian wheezy with 3.8 kernel taken from ubuntu reps. But after
>> launch this adaptor doesn't work: no any new network interfaces is shown in
>> ifconfig.
>>
>> As far as I understood, such vendor:product (07d1:3a0d) isn't specified in
>> drivers/net/wireless/ath/ar5523/ar5523.c, and therefore the driver doesn't
>> recognise my device. Firmware 'ar5523.bin' is located in
>> /usr/local/lib/firmware.
>>
>> What can I do to make this adaptor work? Only add that v:p pair to
>> ar5523.c and recompile it? Just if that can be done without compiling - it
>> will be great.
>
>
> You can test to see if it works with that kernel with the following commands
> (as root):
>
> modprobe -v ar5523
> echo 07d1 3a0d > /sys/bus/usb/drivers/ar5523/new_id
>
> If the device would work by adding that USB ID to the device table, then the
> above commands should accomplish the same result. Note - these commands will
> need to be re-entered after every reload of ar5523.
>
> Larry
>