Bug#853073: Wrong firmware loaded as a result of commit 339162b

2017-01-29 Thread Larry Finger
On 01/29/2017 07:13 PM, Jurij Smakov wrote: [Contacting authors of the problematic commit with proposed patch] Hello, I was investigating the regression in performance of wifi on my laptop (using rtl8192ce driver) and I believe that it is a result of recent commit 339162b: https://github.com/t

Bug#651622: linux-2.6: Sitecom WLA-2000 v1.001 WLAN stick not supported

2011-12-11 Thread Larry Finger
On 12/11/2011 04:16 AM, Roland Gruber wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Larry, Am 11.12.2011 00:22, schrieb Larry Finger: The driver for the RTL8188SU is r8712u. Try modprobe -rv r8712u echo 0df6 005d> /sys/bus/usb/drivers/r8712u/new_id wow, this works. Thank

Bug#651622: linux-2.6: Sitecom WLA-2000 v1.001 WLAN stick not supported

2011-12-10 Thread Larry Finger
On 12/10/2011 05:51 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Sat, 2011-12-10 at 17:22 -0600, Larry Finger wrote: If rtl8192cu generates an oops when you use the new_id, then it is the wrong driver for your device. Isn't this really just because using new_id results in driver_info = NULL? I'

Bug#651622: linux-2.6: Sitecom WLA-2000 v1.001 WLAN stick not supported

2011-12-10 Thread Larry Finger
On 12/10/2011 04:37 PM, Roland Gruber wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have some problem to get a Sitecom USB WLAN stick to run. Ben tried to help me but we did not get it to work. So he pointed me to you. :) It is the Sitecom WLA-2000 v1.001. Vendor 0df6 Product 005

Bug#645055: realtek 8188CE ad-hoc mode not supported

2011-10-12 Thread Larry Finger
On 10/12/2011 06:24 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: I looked a little further and saw that nl80211 does support changing interface type (mode). But this driver (rtl8192ce) only supports creating new interfaces, not changing their type. Should mac80211 drivers generally support changing interface type

Bug#588196: b43: does not join multicast groups

2010-07-12 Thread Larry Finger
On 07/13/2010 12:14 AM, Simon Richter wrote: Hi, On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 05:57:50PM -0500, Larry Finger wrote: When you get the FATAL DMA error, the controller is reset; however, that is just a simple work around that does not work on all systems. To get your system to work, you need to load

Bug#588196: b43: does not join multicast groups

2010-07-11 Thread Larry Finger
On 07/11/2010 05:25 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 04:19 +0200, Simon Richter wrote: Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.34-1~experimental.1 Severity: normal Hi, I'm using a B43 based SSB card with LP-PHY, and find myself unable to join an IPv6 network as router advertisements are