Stefan Lippers-Hollmann <s.l-h@xxxxxx> writes: > Hi > > On 2016-07-20, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >> On Wednesday, July 20, 2016 11:33:43 AM CEST Jes Sorensen wrote: >> > Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> writes: >> > > On Wednesday, July 20, 2016 7:25:19 AM CEST Jes Sorensen wrote: >> > >> Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> writes: > [...] >> Yes, I was just agreeing here that it's not worth doing that one. >> As far as I can see, the evolution of these devices is >> >> RTL81xxU (2008) >> RTL81xxSU (2009) >> RTL81xxCU (2010) > > There is also RTL81xxDU, apparently from 2011, a dualband device > coming in several variants (single MAC + single PHY, double MAC + > double PHY and double PHY); e.g. 0bda:8194 (single PHY + single MAC). > > While probably not overly common, it was/ is (hardware-wise) a pretty > interesting device due to its support for 5 GHz[1] - actually I hoped > it to be a (supported-) RTL8192CU variant when I bought it. > Unfortunately no driver[2] made it to staging or the proper kernel. I actually have one of those in my USB dongle box, but as you say, not overly common so not sure if/when I'll get to it. Adding 8192du support for 2.4GHz to rtl8xxxu probably wouldn't be too complicated. Cheers, Jes _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
