Here are patches patch to increase the polling timeout for rtl8xxxu firmware startup, and to make it configurable. Resubmitting with changes per Julian Calaby's comments. Dan Lenski (2): rtl8xxxu: Increase default polling timeout for firmware startup rtl8xxxu: Make polling timeout for firmware configurable drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl8xxxu/rtl8xxxu.c | 11 +++++++---- drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl8xxxu/rtl8xxxu.h | 2 +- 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) -- 2.8.2 -- 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