On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 09:34:14AM +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > I have no idea what AutoRun mode is (it seems that the stick already > has a firmware and is happy with it) and I have no clue why the firmware > decides to lie about it. I looked at the vendor driver I found at github > (which seems to be from 2012-10-22, DPO_RT5572_LinuxSTA_2.6.1.3) and > well, I look again if someone says it is worth looking… They seem to do > some kind "firmware is comming" magic which might be already done in the > current driver at a different spot but I think the main question is why > request is answered wrong. I *think* the vendor driver sends the > USB_MODE_AUTORUN request only once but it is hard to tell… Does the below patch solve the issue ? diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800usb.c b/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800usb.c index 9a2f44a..3a6cae8 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800usb.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800usb.c @@ -293,6 +293,7 @@ static int rt2800usb_write_firmware(struct rt2x00_dev *rt2x00dev, if (retval) { rt2x00_info(rt2x00dev, "Firmware loading not required - NIC in AutoRun mode\n"); + __clear_bit(REQUIRE_FIRMWARE, &rt2x00dev->cap_flags); } else { rt2x00usb_register_multiwrite(rt2x00dev, FIRMWARE_IMAGE_BASE, data + offset, length); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html