From: Xose Vazquez Perez <xose.vazquez@gmail.com>
To: linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>,
Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>,
Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Subject: overlap of devices in rtl8xxxu and rtl8192cu
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2015 14:24:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <562A2711.9040700@gmail.com> (raw)
Kalle Valo wrote:
>> From: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>
>>
>> This is an alternate driver for a number of Realtek WiFi USB devices,
>> including RTL8723AU, RTL8188CU, RTL8188RU, RTL8191CU, and RTL8192CU.
>> It was written from scratch utilizing the Linux mac80211 stack.
>>
>> After spending months cleaning up the vendor provided rtl8723au
>> driver, which comes with it's own 802.11 stack included, I decided to
>> rewrite this driver from the bottom up.
>>
>> Many thanks to Johannes Berg for 802.11 insights and help and Larry
>> Finger for help with the vendor driver.
>>
>> The full git log for the development of this driver can be found here:
>> git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jes/linux.git
>> branch rtl8723au-mac80211
>>
>> This driver is still under development, but has proven to be very
>> stable for me. It currently supports station mode only. It has support
>> for OFDM and CCK rates. It does lack certain features found in the
>> staging driver, such as power management, AMPDU, and 40MHz channel
>> support. In addition it does not support AD-HOC, AP, and monitor mode
>> support at this point.
>>
>> The driver is known to work with the following devices:
>> Lenovo Yoga (rtl8723au)
>> TP-Link TL-WN823N (rtl8192cu)
>> Etekcity 6R (rtl8188cu)
>> Daffodil LAN03 (rtl8188cu)
>> Alfa AWUS036NHR (rtl8188ru)
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>
>
> Thanks, applied to wireless-drivers-next.git.
There is overlap of devices between rtl8xxxu and rtl8192cu:
USB_VENDER_ID_REALTEK, 0x8176
USB_VENDER_ID_REALTEK, 0x8178
USB_VENDER_ID_REALTEK, 0x817f
0x7392, 0x7811
next reply other threads:[~2015-10-23 12:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-23 12:24 Xose Vazquez Perez [this message]
2015-10-23 13:59 ` overlap of devices in rtl8xxxu and rtl8192cu Jes Sorensen
2015-10-23 14:20 ` Kalle Valo
2015-10-23 14:26 ` Jes Sorensen
2015-10-23 17:07 ` Kalle Valo
2015-10-23 17:26 ` Kalle Valo
2015-10-23 17:53 ` Jes Sorensen
2015-10-23 19:31 ` Larry Finger
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