From: James <bjlockie@lockie.ca>
To: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>, Pkshih <pkshih@realtek.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: USB for rtw89 driver?
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2021 17:22:51 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dac5960c-44f0-300e-d3d7-6ae23c3ae64f@lockie.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <917dde5b-36c7-a079-6dc1-7441a2f90745@lwfinger.net>
On 2021-11-29 16:42, Larry Finger wrote:
> On 11/29/21 08:24, James wrote:
>>
>>>> Does anyone know if the proprietary driver works on the Raspberry Pi4B
>>>> (Arm)?
>>>
>>> Don't have a proprietary driver neither.
>>
>> Dlink seems to have added USB support.
>> I assumed that is proprietary but I guess that is only x86.
>>
>> https://support.dlink.com/ProductInfo.aspx?m=DWA-181-US
>>
>> There is also an open source USB driver on github but I don't think
>> it is getting fixes like the lfinger github one.
>> https://github.com/neojou/rtw89-usb
>
> The D-Link driver is for the rtl8822bu, not an rtl8852au. That would
> make it for rtw88, not rtw89. BTW, it will not compile under kernel
> 5.16.0-rc3, but the fixes would be minor.
>
Is this statement in the readme of neojou not correct?
"This driver is based on Realtek's rtw89 driver
<https://github.com/torvalds/linux/tree/master/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw89>
in Linux main trunk. Or can refer to this lwfinger's github [rtw89]
(https://github.com/lwfinger/rtw89)"
I checked the dlink link and it is for a wifi5 device.
I don't know how I got there. :-(
There is no linux driver from dlink for the USB wifi6 device. :-(
Oh well, maybe in 10 years. :-)
>
> That driver is the usual collection of junk code published by the
> Realtek USB group for years. That code base is used to generate
> drivers for Windows, Linux, and FreeBSD.
>
> A group is currently modifying the rtl8188eu driver in staging to
> convert it into reasonable Linux shape. This one would take the same
> effort to make it suitable.
"Chipset:/RTL8188EU/ Standard: IEEE 802.11n"
Would a good 8188eu driver make it easier to support wifi5 and wifi6
devices?
>
> The basic USB driver in the neojou repo should work, but I do not have
> an rtl8852au device.
Maybe it'll be in kernel eventually. :-)
> Larry
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-11-29 22:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-27 22:22 USB for rtw89 driver? James
2021-11-29 8:52 ` Pkshih
2021-11-29 14:24 ` James
2021-11-29 21:42 ` Larry Finger
2021-11-29 22:22 ` James [this message]
2021-11-29 23:37 ` James
2021-11-30 1:44 ` Larry Finger
2021-11-30 3:10 ` James
2021-11-30 1:16 ` Larry Finger
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