On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 3:59 PM, John W. Linville <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 11:18:56PM +0200, Ivo van Doorn wrote: >> Hi, >> >> > > I hope rt2800pci/usb to be included *ASAP*, because rt2800usb supports >> > > more than 1oo USB devices and rt2800pci is included in a lot of >> > > laptops(ask Torvalds [1] [2]) >> > > >> > > [1] http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=121799144422863&w=2 >> > > [2] http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123187052023831&w=2 >> > >> > That would be great to have in, what's keeping it from happening? >> >> In short: A stable workable driver. >> >> The rt2800usb driver is pretty far (at least on my testsetup), but >> still has problems with transmitting frames immediately after >> association. > > I read this as "it works, but some frames are lost immediately after > association" -- is that right? It is not "Some frames" it is "All frames" you can't get a DHCP lease, or use a static IP and try to do anything. Also 11n APs are not detected at all, which for a 11n client sounds very problematic. > FWIW, this sounds good enough to me > to get it into the mainline kernel. _Please_ submit the rt2800usb > driver for wireless-testing/linux-next ASAP! If the above 2 problems aren't critical for merge, then I'll send the patches as soon as possible. Ivo -- 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
