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From: walt <w41ter@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: wlan
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 23:58:32
Message-Id: hobkg9$krd$1@dough.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] wlan by Thomas Bruns
1 On 03/23/2010 11:42 AM, Thomas Bruns wrote:
2 > Am Dienstag 23 März 2010 19:39:32 schrieb Thomas Bruns:
3 >> Hello NGs,
4 >>
5 >> when connect my usb-wlan-stick i get this message:
6 >>
7 >> usb 1-5: USB disconnect, address 3
8 >> usb 1-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4
9 >> usb 1-5: New USB device found, idVendor=0df6, idProduct=0040
10 >> ...
11
12 In the latest sources from Linus.git there is this warning:
13
14 #ifdef CONFIG_RT2800USB_UNKNOWN
15 /*
16 * Unclear what kind of devices these are (they aren't supported by the
17 * vendor driver).
18 */
19 /* Sitecom */
20 { USB_DEVICE(0x0df6, 0x0040), USB_DEVICE_DATA(&rt2800usb_ops) },
21 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
22 And there is your device, FWIW. Now, enabling CONFIG_RT2800USB_UNKNOWN
23 is beyond my abilities. Even though it's definitely present in the Kconfig
24 file, I can't get it to show up in menuconfig. That option is new since
25 2.6.31-gentoo-r10, so I'm guessing the existing driver doesn't support that
26 particular device yet.
27
28 I'd happily be wrong if someone knows otherwise.
29
30 BTW, the driver code that's rejecting your device could be commented out
31 in drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800usb.c (lines 2339-2359). (If you choose
32 to rebuild the driver that way -- don't blame me for any death/destruction
33 or loss of data it may cause. The RF chip is the high-power part of the
34 adapter, so driving that chip incorrectly could do it damage, maybe.)