On 10/24/2012 06:01 AM, Arend van Spriel wrote:
On 10/23/2012 10:51 PM, Larry Finger wrote:
Arend and Franky,
I recently purchased a Belkin N600 DB USB dongle on Ebay. I wanted to
get the model with a Realtek RTL8192DU chip. Instead I got a version
with a Broadcom chip, which lsusb identifies as
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 050d:615a Belkin Components F7D4101 / F9L1101
802.11abgn Wireless Adapter [Broadcom BCM4323]
I have since acquired a different device with the Realtek chip, thus I
could return the Belkin device; however, the cost was minimal and I will
keep it if there is a driver for it. Is it a brcmfmac device that is not
yet in the device tables, or is it some other sort of unit that may
never be supported under Linux?
Hi Larry,
I went digging and this chip requires a different driver model (basically a
split stack between host and dongle). This model is being abandoned for newer
chips so we decided not to support it in mainline linux.
Thanks for the info. I will try to return the device.
Larry
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