I just bought a HP netbook for my son equipped with this chipset. I
first tried linux 3.9.7, got WiFi working badly but working. Saw fix for
TX power in 3.9.9. WiFi became more reliable but still had a lot of TX,
and MISC errors reported by iwconfig. While laptop is now usable for
internet browsing, trying to play HD tv via XBMC + tvheadend fails
miserably due to WiFi data rate and WiFi errors while other PC at home
do play without problems.
Saw the fix in 3.10 for TX errors and indeed the TX errors dropped to 0.
However, the MISC error count in turn rose (Downloading
linux-3.10.tar.xz on 3.10 reports 550 misc errors). So there is still
some problem with this chipset. I know support is experimental but I
would be glad to test any patchif possible on 3.9.x as on 3.10 I have no
ATI driver available at the moment and thus HD decoding is out of reach
anyway.
Using ralink proprietary driver on linux recent kernel and amd64 is a no
go(does not compile due to API change + lots of INT32/pointers
conversion)but may be the driver code could shed some light for people
with adequate knowledge...
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-- eric
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