On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Ivo Van Doorn <ivdoorn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. To clarify a bit, this behavior summarizes the first minute after association, after that all frames queued in the past minute are bursted out in a single shot and normal traffic is possible again. > 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
