* New firmware for RT2870
@ 2016-03-09 20:22 Larry Finger
2016-03-10 2:15 ` quarkverse
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From: Larry Finger @ 2016-03-09 20:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-wireless, Stanislaw Gruszka, Helmut Schaa, dan.g.tob
In https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114151, the OP reports improved
stability and performance for an RT5370 using a newer firmware that came with
the driver CD. The logs show this to be version 0.36, whereas the version now in
linux-firmware is version 0.29.
I downloaded the firmware from b.k.o. It had very little effect on my no-name
adapter with ID 148f:3070. It still gets ping losses of 10-15%.
Should this new version be submitted to linux-firmware? Its provenance seems to
be sketchy, but submission would likely be legal.
Larry
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* Re: New firmware for RT2870
2016-03-09 20:22 New firmware for RT2870 Larry Finger
@ 2016-03-10 2:15 ` quarkverse
2016-03-10 16:45 ` Larry Finger
2016-03-10 14:09 ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2016-03-10 14:41 ` Helmut Schaa
2 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: quarkverse @ 2016-03-10 2:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Larry Finger; +Cc: linux-wireless, Stanislaw Gruszka, Helmut Schaa, dan.g.tob
I have an RT5370 adapter from Panda Wireless and use it on my Ubuntu
14.04 laptop.
It is working fine on my laptop.
>From my laptop:
rt2x00lib_request_firmware: Info - Firmware detected - version: 0.29
I didn't see the warnings reported in the Bug 114151.
Just curious how to test version 0.36 on my laptop.
Thanks.
Alan
On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 12:22 PM, Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> wrote:
> In https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114151, the OP reports
> improved stability and performance for an RT5370 using a newer firmware that
> came with the driver CD. The logs show this to be version 0.36, whereas the
> version now in linux-firmware is version 0.29.
>
> I downloaded the firmware from b.k.o. It had very little effect on my
> no-name adapter with ID 148f:3070. It still gets ping losses of 10-15%.
>
> Should this new version be submitted to linux-firmware? Its provenance seems
> to be sketchy, but submission would likely be legal.
>
> Larry
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* Re: New firmware for RT2870
2016-03-09 20:22 New firmware for RT2870 Larry Finger
2016-03-10 2:15 ` quarkverse
@ 2016-03-10 14:09 ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2016-03-10 14:41 ` Helmut Schaa
2 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Stanislaw Gruszka @ 2016-03-10 14:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Larry Finger; +Cc: linux-wireless, Helmut Schaa, dan.g.tob
On Wed, Mar 09, 2016 at 02:22:45PM -0600, Larry Finger wrote:
> In https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114151, the OP reports
> improved stability and performance for an RT5370 using a newer firmware that
> came with the driver CD. The logs show this to be version 0.36, whereas the
> version now in linux-firmware is version 0.29.
>
> I downloaded the firmware from b.k.o. It had very little effect on my
> no-name adapter with ID 148f:3070. It still gets ping losses of 10-15%.
>
> Should this new version be submitted to linux-firmware? Its provenance seems
> to be sketchy, but submission would likely be legal.
I do not see any reason not to update ralink firmwares in linux-firmware
git tree, however IIRC linux-firmware maintainers prefer to firmware
submission was performed from vendor email addresses.
Stanislaw
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* Re: New firmware for RT2870
2016-03-09 20:22 New firmware for RT2870 Larry Finger
2016-03-10 2:15 ` quarkverse
2016-03-10 14:09 ` Stanislaw Gruszka
@ 2016-03-10 14:41 ` Helmut Schaa
2 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Helmut Schaa @ 2016-03-10 14:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Larry Finger; +Cc: linux-wireless, Stanislaw Gruszka, dan.g.tob
On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 9:22 PM, Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> wrote:
> In https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114151, the OP reports
> improved stability and performance for an RT5370 using a newer firmware that
> came with the driver CD. The logs show this to be version 0.36, whereas the
> version now in linux-firmware is version 0.29.
>
> I downloaded the firmware from b.k.o. It had very little effect on my
> no-name adapter with ID 148f:3070. It still gets ping losses of 10-15%.
>
> Should this new version be submitted to linux-firmware? Its provenance seems
> to be sketchy, but submission would likely be legal.
Version 0.36 can also be found in the vendor tarball on [1] even though it
references a different chip ...
So, in my opinion this should be safe from a legal point of view.
Helmut
[1] http://www.mediatek.com/en/downloads1/downloads/mt7612u/
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* Re: New firmware for RT2870
2016-03-10 2:15 ` quarkverse
@ 2016-03-10 16:45 ` Larry Finger
0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Larry Finger @ 2016-03-10 16:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: quarkverse; +Cc: linux-wireless, Stanislaw Gruszka, Helmut Schaa, dan.g.tob
On 03/09/2016 08:15 PM, quarkverse wrote:
> I have an RT5370 adapter from Panda Wireless and use it on my Ubuntu
> 14.04 laptop.
> It is working fine on my laptop.
>
>>From my laptop:
> rt2x00lib_request_firmware: Info - Firmware detected - version: 0.29
>
> I didn't see the warnings reported in the Bug 114151.
>
> Just curious how to test version 0.36 on my laptop.\\
Go to https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114151 and copy the attachment
to your ~/Downloads directory. Then do the following:
sudo cp /lib/firmware/rt2870.bin /lib/firmware/rt2870.bin_old
sudo cp ~/Downloads/rt2870.bin /lib/firmware/.
sudo modprobe -rv rt2x00usb
sudo modprobe -v rt2x00usb
If your testing shows a regression in performance, then you can recover by
copying rt2870.bin_old to rt2870.bin in /lib/firmware.
Larry
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* Re: New firmware for RT2870
@ 2016-03-10 17:30 Xose Vazquez Perez
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From: Xose Vazquez Perez @ 2016-03-10 17:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-wireless, Larry Finger
Larry Finger wrote:
> I downloaded the firmware from b.k.o. It had very little effect on my no-name
> adapter with ID 148f:3070. It still gets ping losses of 10-15%.
I have tested 0.36 on a 148f:3070 (high quality) device for 4 hours,
and it has worked *flawlessly* .
(Fedora 23 + updates-testing.repo - kernel-4.4.4-301 - wpa_supplicant-2.4-7
AP: Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH2 running OpenWrt-snapshots-2016-Mar-09 [1])
Last year I have been in touch with Mediatek crew, and they said(12/09/2015):
"According to the engineers comment, the firmware didn't change much
these years, just some bbp register update and led stuff."
[1] Friends don't let friends run stock router firmware.
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