[rt2x00-users] Support for Ralink 5370 WiFi USB dongle

[Gertjan van Wingerde]

On 11/10/11 00:41, Ingvar Hagelund wrote:
> * Gertjan van Wingerde 
>>>> So, the RF chipset if properly reported here.
>>>>
>>>> Also note that the RF chipset identification was not a guess, as this code was submitted by Ralink
>>>> themselves.
>>>>
>>>> I seem to recall that you are running on a PPC32 platform, is that correct?
>>>>
>>>> Would it be possible for you to connect the device to an x86 based platform, to make sure that we
>>>> aren't running in some strange BE related problem?
> 
> * Ingvar Hagelund
>> Built on a fedora 15 laptop running a 3.1.0 kernel from fedora 16 on x86_64. Driver seems to work well, and I get decent speed over WPA2, at least 12Mbps.
>>
>> This is with no patches, just latest compat-wireless. So this might mean that the problems I saw may have been related to the 32bit ppc arch specifically.
> 
> So, this could be related to endianess. I'm willing to work with this
> and do testing, though I'm not much of a coder. I had a look at the code
> that does endian "decoding" when necessary, and it seems that those
> parts were merged earlier this fall.
> 
> So ... I'm a bit at a loss here. What should I do? I could try to remove
> the endian bit-juggling here and there, and check if the RF chipset
> changes, perhaps. Any other suggestions?
> 

Hi Ingvar,

Would you be able to apply the attached diagnostics patch and report back on the dmesg output at module loading time?

Hopefully this would allow us to get a bit closer to the cause of the issue.

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Gertjan
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