Hi, it is not related to your HW, but may help: https://github.com/qca/open-ath9k-htc-firmware/wiki/Troubleshooting-and-bug-reporting https://github.com/qca/open-ath9k-htc-firmware/wiki/usb-related-issues Am 15.09.2017 um 10:48 schrieb Ernst Wegner: > Dear list! > > I recently suffer from attempts to use some USB WiFi sticks to connect > to a wireless network using Linux. I tried that with a number of > distros, but found that there seem to be kind of the same problems all > the way from Linux 2.6.x to 4.x. Most USB WiFi sticks don't work > reliably. > > As I am a developer also (and very interested in these things) I would > be willing to help debugging drivers and possibly fix them. But I > don't really know where to start searching. So some hints would be > very welcome. > > Currently I try to get this one here to work: > > Bus 001 Device 006: ID 148f:5370 Ralink Technology, Corp. RT5370 > Wireless Adapter > > I am on Debian 9 with a pretty recent kernel: > > Linux debian 4.9.0-3-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.30-2+deb9u3 (2017-08-06) > x86_64 GNU/Linux > > I was able to get this stick to work kind of. Actually, it drops the > connection every couple of minutes, without any error messages in > dmesg or syslog, actually. But I was able to reach that state only > after applying some tweaks like disabling hardware encrypt, i.e. > > options rt2800usb nohwcrypt=y > > and > > [device] > wifi.scan-rand-mac-address=no > > So any pointers would be welcome. > > I am not afraid to dig into the code of the driver and recompile. > > I could also possibly add or enable some debugging code so I will get > some more debugging output to see what actually happens when I loose > the connection, i.e. if this is an external event, a special kind of > package, overload, ... > > And finally: This isn't the only USB Wifi stick which has serious > problems with Linux. The Internet is full of this including drivers > for some sticks which don't work at all and don't go anywhere for > month. Obviously it's not the sticks to blame, as they all work fine > on Windows. So what's the underlying story here which I am missing? > > Regards, > Torsten > -- Regards, Oleksij
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