From: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
To: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
dwmw2@infradead.org, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
Jan Terstegge <jan@terstegge.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rtlwifi/rtl8712u Revert firmware
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 23:31:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1348180259.4801.9.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1347294365-6509-1-git-send-email-Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
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On Mon, 2012-09-10 at 11:26 -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
> Although the newest firmware for the RTL8192SU, which is found in vendor
> driver rtl8188C_8192C_8192D_usb_linux_v3.4.2_3727.20120404, works with most
> devices, it causes drops of the wireless connection for the ASUS WL-167G V3
> (USB ID 0b05:1791), the D-Link DWA131 (07d1:3303), and probably others.
> Tests show that the firmware from vendor driver
> rtl8712_8188_8191_8192SU_usb_linux_v7_0.20100831 works better.
>
> This commerts reverts to that older firmware.
>
> Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
[...]
This is the original blob added by:
commit 8f919160792e4702c6b7a67a243cea4f757407e4
Author: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Date: Mon Nov 1 23:56:52 2010 -0500
linux-firmware: Add firmware files for Realtek RTL8712U and RTL8192CE
There have been two updates since then:
commit f8ddc05e13c4c6dd9d725bc376b287f307eb223a
Author: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Date: Tue Aug 16 11:12:14 2011 -0500
rtlwifi: rtl8712u: Upgrade to firmware found in vendor's V2.6.6
commit d8f60751d3f09545f51aac5d8e451f7668063ebf
Author: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Date: Wed Jul 11 13:18:30 2012 -0500
r8712u: Update to latest firmware
A new firmware file is used in the vendor driver with name/version
rtl8188C_8192C_8192D_usb_linux_v3.4.2_3727.20120404.
Sure you want to revert both of these, not just the latest?
Ben.
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-10 16:26 Larry Finger
2012-09-20 22:31 ` Ben Hutchings [this message]
2012-09-21 16:14 ` Larry Finger
2012-09-24 19:34 ` Ben Hutchings
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