Re: urtwn driver for Edimax EW-7811U WLAN nano USB Adapter

From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 07:47:31 +0000
On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 03:41:16PM +0800, Kevin Lo wrote:
> On 2014/02/10 20:21, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> >To augment this a bit: I also came across one of these dongles (vendor
> >0x0bda product 0x8176) that gave me this "timeout waiting for checksum
> >report" message.  Retrying didn't help, but plugging the dongle out and
> >then back in did.  After powercycling the machine, I had to replug it
> >again.  Once replugged, the dongle seems to work fine (I rebuilt kernel
> >and some ports via NFS over it thus far).
> >
> >This suggests that the driver (or more generic part of the USB stack)
> >does not initialize something correctly, while full plug-and-play thing
> >does it.  Any ideas?
> 
> We have to reset the bit of the R92C_MCUFWDL associated with checksum report
> before writing firmware.  Could you try this patch? Thanks.

Shit.  I'd like to help, but no longer have access to the dongle.  If I find
anything similar (or find a way to get access to original dongle remotely),
I'll let you know. :(

Thanks for working on these things Kevin, I appreciate it.

./danfe
Received on Mon Mar 10 2014 - 06:47:31 UTC

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