From: Etna <etna@openmailbox.org>
To: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: MediaTek WiFi hardware support in upstream kernel
Date: Sun, 05 Apr 2015 17:12:21 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5520FC75.7010008@openmailbox.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5520FB36.8050301@openmailbox.org>
This is sorely needed given the miserable state of wifi drivers in the
Linux kernel.
Kernel maintainers, can this be pushed to mainline? It's not a vendor
driver after all, and it uses nl80211 instead of WEXT.
Regards,
Etna
>
>
> On 26/02/15 22:40, Jakub Kiciński wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 26 Feb 2015 14:56:46 +0100, poma wrote:
>>>
>>> On 06.02.2015 18:29, Jakub Kiciński wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hello everyone! I put together a mac80211 driver for Mediatek
>>>> MT7601U. It's partially based on Felix's mt76, but I'm not sure if
>>>> it will make sense to merge the two together. MT7601U is a pretty
>>>> old 1x1 bgn chip for USB dongles and mt76 now only supports the
>>>> latest and greatest ac APs. I'm testing STA functionality right now
>>>> and it seems to be working ok. The code is very much a work in
>>>> progress but if anyone is interested you can get it here:
>>>> https://github.com/kuba-moo/mt7601uCheers, kuba -- To unsubscribe
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>>>
>>> How many mt7601u module editions exists there? :) - vendor's -
>>> vendor's patched (how many forms of the same) - your reinvented -
>>> the one on which pán Gruszka allegedly works? - any more?
>>
>> I assume you mean to ask how many different drivers are there. There
>> is the vendor 3.0.0.4 STA driver which only has client functionality.
>> Many patched versions of this driver exist on GitHub. There is also
>> an older version of vendor driver which can work as an AP. My
>> mac80211-based driver is the only non-vendor version I'm aware of.
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-05 8:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-27 3:02 MediaTek WiFi hardware support in upstream kernel Etna
2014-10-27 15:20 ` John W. Linville
2014-10-27 18:19 ` Oleksij Rempel
2014-10-28 13:46 ` John W. Linville
2014-10-28 14:06 ` Arend van Spriel
2014-10-28 14:20 ` Oleksij Rempel
2014-10-29 10:17 ` Felix Fietkau
2014-11-11 11:55 ` Oleksij Rempel
2014-11-12 21:04 ` Felix Fietkau
2014-11-12 21:35 ` Larry Finger
2015-02-06 17:29 ` Jakub Kiciński
2015-02-25 0:49 ` Sergei Antonov
2015-02-25 9:33 ` mt7601u dies during channel switch (was: MediaTek WiFi hardware support in upstream kernel) Jakub Kiciński
2015-02-25 23:58 ` Sergei Antonov
2015-02-26 16:05 ` Jakub Kiciński
2015-02-26 18:50 ` Sergei Antonov
2015-02-26 19:01 ` Jakub Kiciński
2015-03-02 10:30 ` Sergei Antonov
2015-02-26 13:56 ` MediaTek WiFi hardware support in upstream kernel poma
2015-02-26 14:40 ` Jakub Kiciński
[not found] ` <5520FB36.8050301@openmailbox.org>
2015-04-05 9:12 ` Etna [this message]
2015-05-18 0:03 ` poma
2015-05-19 1:03 ` poma
2015-05-20 17:06 ` poma
2015-05-20 17:14 ` Jakub Kiciński
2015-05-21 13:37 ` poma
2015-06-27 20:45 ` poma
2015-12-23 15:05 ` poma
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