Bug 670862

Summary: Please, set CONFIG_RT2800USB_UNKNOWN to 'y' in config-generic
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Peter Lemenkov <lemenkov>
Component: kernelAssignee: John W. Linville <linville>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 14CC: gansalmon, itamar, jonathan, kernel-maint, linville, madhu.chinakonda
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Add rt2870 device id
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Patch rebased against latest 2.6.38 none

Description Peter Lemenkov 2011-01-19 15:00:48 UTC
Asus USB N-11 is a rt2870-based Wi-Fi USB adapter. Unfortunately, it's listed under RT2800USB_UNKNOWN option (open drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800usb.c and grep for 1761).

Could you, please enable it? Or maybe there are some strong reasons to not enable it? If yes, then could you, please, share them with us?

Comment 1 John W. Linville 2011-01-19 15:44:49 UTC
Did you test it?  How well did it work?

It probably makes more sense to move specific chipsets out of that group.

Comment 2 Peter Lemenkov 2011-01-24 11:57:16 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> Did you test it?  How well did it work?

I can't fully test it - there is no any Wi-Fi accesspoints in the vicinity of the PC I'm playing with. I know this sounds really weird but it is true - no AP I can connect to :).

I'll try it on a different PC soon.

> It probably makes more sense to move specific chipsets out of that group.

Comment 3 Peter Lemenkov 2011-02-05 20:50:41 UTC
Created attachment 477239 [details]
Add rt2870 device id

Tested on my machine - it allows scanning for wi-fi networks and basic wi-fi info fetching. I still didn't test AP joining.

Comment 4 John W. Linville 2011-02-07 14:32:16 UTC
Associating with the ap is, of course, a critical requirement. :-)  Please report on that as well.

Comment 5 Peter Lemenkov 2011-03-16 04:47:49 UTC
Created attachment 485638 [details]
Patch rebased against latest 2.6.38

Hello!

Sorry for radio silence - I was busy recompiling kernel rpm for my F-15 ppc box.

Now I can confirm that all works fine with the patch above (or with RT2800USB_UNKNOWN is set) and kernel 2.6.38 (rpm version - kernel-2.6.38-1.fc15). I'm able to join WPA2-protected network with AES key management, get IPv6 and login with ssh from another machine.

Comment 6 Peter Lemenkov 2011-03-16 05:03:22 UTC
Ok, John - what should I do next? I've got also few simple rt2x00 patches in my Git tree (including this one) - maybe I should post them into linux-wireless?

https://github.com/lemenkov/linux-2.6-oxnas/commits/rt2x00

Comment 7 John W. Linville 2011-03-16 13:38:40 UTC
Those all seem reasonable to me -- please post them to linux-wireless.  Thanks!

Comment 8 Peter Lemenkov 2011-03-16 14:17:24 UTC
(In reply to comment #7)
> Those all seem reasonable to me -- please post them to linux-wireless.  Thanks!

Done!

I think it's time to close this ticket.