Re: Patch for SITECOM WLA-1000 V1 001 WLAN USB Adapter (Realtek RTL8188S)

From: Larry Finger
Date: Sat Jan 07 2012 - 10:43:03 EST


On 01/07/2012 09:04 AM, Dario Lucia wrote:
Dear Larry and Florian,

I'm sending you this email, because you are marked as maintainers for the module
r8712u. I had to patch it, in order to let it recognize my USB WLAN adapter from
Sitecom (WLA-1000). Basically, I had to add the following line inside
drivers/staging/rtl8712/usb_intf.c (line 89):

{USB_DEVICE(0x0DF6, 0x005B)},

Would it be possible to have the following included in the next kernel version,
so that we don't have to patch and recompile the kernel everytime?
I created the patch on kernel 3.1.7. The driver is working fine using the latest
firmware from Realtek (2.6.6.0.20110401).

The output I have from lsusb is the following:

Bus 002 Device 005: ID 0df6:005b Sitecom Europe B.V.
Device Descriptor:
bLength 18
bDescriptorType 1
bcdUSB 2.00
bDeviceClass 0 (Defined at Interface level)
bDeviceSubClass 0
bDeviceProtocol 0
bMaxPacketSize0 64
idVendor 0x0df6 Sitecom Europe B.V.
idProduct 0x005b
bcdDevice 2.00
iManufacturer 1 Manufacturer Realtek
iProduct 2 RTL8188S WLAN Adapter
iSerial 3 00e04c000001
bNumConfigurations 1
Configuration Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 2
wTotalLength 46
bNumInterfaces 1
bConfigurationValue 1
iConfiguration 0
bmAttributes 0x80
(Bus Powered)
MaxPower 500mA
Interface Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 4
bInterfaceNumber 0
bAlternateSetting 0
bNumEndpoints 4
bInterfaceClass 255 Vendor Specific Class
bInterfaceSubClass 255 Vendor Specific Subclass
bInterfaceProtocol 255 Vendor Specific Protocol
iInterface 0
Endpoint Descriptor:
bLength 7
bDescriptorType 5
bEndpointAddress 0x83 EP 3 IN
bmAttributes 2
Transfer Type Bulk
Synch Type None
Usage Type Data
wMaxPacketSize 0x0200 1x 512 bytes
bInterval 0
Endpoint Descriptor:
bLength 7
bDescriptorType 5
bEndpointAddress 0x04 EP 4 OUT
bmAttributes 2
Transfer Type Bulk
Synch Type None
Usage Type Data
wMaxPacketSize 0x0200 1x 512 bytes
bInterval 0
Endpoint Descriptor:
bLength 7
bDescriptorType 5
bEndpointAddress 0x06 EP 6 OUT
bmAttributes 2
Transfer Type Bulk
Synch Type None
Usage Type Data
wMaxPacketSize 0x0200 1x 512 bytes
bInterval 0
Endpoint Descriptor:
bLength 7
bDescriptorType 5
bEndpointAddress 0x0d EP 13 OUT
bmAttributes 2
Transfer Type Bulk
Synch Type None
Usage Type Data
wMaxPacketSize 0x0200 1x 512 bytes
bInterval 0
Device Qualifier (for other device speed):
bLength 10
bDescriptorType 6
bcdUSB 2.00
bDeviceClass 0 (Defined at Interface level)
bDeviceSubClass 0
bDeviceProtocol 0
bMaxPacketSize0 64
bNumConfigurations 1
Device Status: 0x0000
(Bus Powered)

The following is the output I get from dmesg, after having plugged the WLAN
adapter in:

[ 2854.704802] usb 2-1.7: new high speed USB device number 5 using ehci_hcd
[ 2854.791717] r8712u: DriverVersion: v7_0.20100831
[ 2854.791728] r8712u: register rtl8712_netdev_ops to netdev_ops
[ 2854.791730] r8712u: USB_SPEED_HIGH with 4 endpoints
[ 2854.792265] r8712u: Boot from EFUSE: Autoload OK
[ 2855.553071] r8712u: CustomerID = 0x0000
[ 2855.553076] r8712u: MAC Address from efuse = 00:0c:f6:b6:dd:b0

I make a "ifconfig wlan0 up"

[ 3006.883663] r8712u: Loading firmware from "rtlwifi/rtl8712u.bin"
[ 3007.533552] r8712u: 1 RCR=0x153f00e
[ 3007.534471] r8712u: 2 RCR=0x553f00e
[ 3007.640220] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready

After configuring WPA supplicant and asked for an IP address, by running "dhcpcd
wlan0"

[ 3046.518482] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready
[ 3053.833957] r8712u: [r8712_got_addbareq_event_callback] mac =
00:0c:f6:be:7f:44, seq = 48, tid = 0
[ 3057.336367] wlan0: no IPv6 routers present

Iwconfig shows:

wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:"WirelessLanDL" Nickname:"rtl_wifi"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: 00:0C:F6:BE:7F:44
Bit Rate:150 Mb/s Sensitivity:0/0
Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:****-****-****-****-****-****-****-**** Security mode:open
Power Management:off
Link Quality=100/100 Signal level=73/100 Noise level=0/100
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

Ifconfig shows:

wlan0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 metric 1
inet 192.168.0.102 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255
inet6 fe80::20c:f6ff:feb6:ddb0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link>
ether 00:0c:f6:b6:dd:b0 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 17 bytes 5850 (5.7 KiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 14 bytes 2013 (1.9 KiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 2 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0

That's it. I apologize in case you already received a patch for this.

I have not seen such a patch, but yours is not quite in the right format. I'll reformat it and send it upstream as soon as possible with a notation to be applied to stable. Once the patch hits the mainline kernel, it will then be back propagated.

Larry


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