Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On 09/06/2015 09:59 AM, Kalle Valo wrote: >> Jes.Sorensen@xxxxxxxxxx writes: >> >>> From: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@xxxxxxxxxx> >>> >>> This is an alternate driver for a number of Realtek WiFi USB devices, >>> including RTL8723AU, RTL8188CU, RTL8188RU, RTL8191CU, and RTL8192CU. >>> It was written from scratch utilizing the Linux mac80211 stack. >>> >>> After spending months cleaning up the vendor provided rtl8723au >>> driver, which comes with it's own 802.11 stack included, I decided to >>> rewrite this driver from the bottom up. >>> >>> Many thanks to Johannes Berg for 802.11 insights and help and Larry >>> Finger for help with the vendor driver. >>> >>> The full git log for the development of this driver can be found here: >>> git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jes/linux.git >>> branch rtl8723au-mac80211 >>> >>> This driver is still under development, but has proven to be very >>> stable for me. It currently supports station mode only. It has support >>> for OFDM and CCK rates, as well as AMPDU. It does lack certain >>> features found in the staging driver, such as power management and >>> 40MHz channel support. In addition it does not support AD-HOC, AP, and >>> monitor mode support at this point. >>> >>> The driver is known to work with the following devices: >>> Lenovo Yoga (rtl8723au) >>> TP-Link TL-WN823N (rtl8192cu) >>> Etekcity 6R (rtl8188cu) >>> Daffodil LAN03 (rtl8188cu) >>> Alfa AWUS036NHR (rtl8188ru) > > One other comment is that using lower case such as rtl8723au indicates > a driver, whereas RTL8723AU is a device. There are no drivers > rtl8188cu or rtl8188ru. I don't see this in general - I had upper case in some places in the driver but it was awful to look at, especially in the dmesg output. Cheers, Jes -- 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
