On 07/09/2013 04:22 PM, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote:
On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 12:50:52PM +0200, Eric Valette wrote:
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.
Do you mean that 3.10 perform better than 3.9.9 ? I do not see any
rt2x00 fixes between 3.9 and 3.10 that are not yet applied on 3.9.9.
I can see only some cleanups and new hardware support patches.
From memory I think I had a lot of reported TX error with 3.9.9 and
they are now gone with 3.10 but the number of misc error reported by
iwconfig is still high with 3.10. But you are right the fix for TX is
still in wireless git and does not seem to be in 3.10. As I checked
several git trees I mist have been confused...
Try to subscribe to rt2x00 mailing list,
http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/mailman/listinfo/users_rt2x00.serialmonkey.com
we post new patches there, but currently we do not have any pending
RT3290 fixes.
OK. Next radical solution is to open the laptop and change for another
half mini pcie card... Quite difficult to find one reliably even if
there are some available on ebay.
Thanks for taking the time to respond...
--eric
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