On Tuesday, October 16, 2012 09:29:25 PM Pontus Fuchs wrote: > Some time ago I found an old USB wireless dongle in my drawer. I was > surprised it wasn't supported in Linux. Google gave me an old > unfinished driver created by Christoph Hellwig. Armed with some > spare time and naivity I picked up where Christoph left in 2007 and > now it's actually working pretty fine. It does not crash for me and > throughput is decent. > > It's based on the FreeBSD driver, which in turn is based on the > reverse engineered Windows driver, hence a very limited feature set. > Not even HW crypto offload is supported. But at least there is a > firmware which has a suitable license: > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/contrib/dev/uath/ar5523.bin.uu > > Changes v1 to v2: > > * Bugfix: Avoid % 512 transfer sizes on TX as the FW will hang. Have you tried setting "urb->transfer_flags |= URB_ZERO_PACKET;" to your outgoing urbs? This might fix the hang as well and you don't need any ugly skb_put. Regards, Chr -- 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
