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upstream commit notice 26f1fad29ad973b0fb26a9ca3dcb2a73dde781aa
New driver: rtl8xxxu (mac80211)
This is an alternate driver for a number of Realtek WiFi USB devices,
including RTL8723AU, RTL8188CU, RTL8188RU, RTL8191CU, and RTL8192CU.
It was written from scratch utilizing the Linux mac80211 stack.
After spending months cleaning up the vendor provided rtl8723au
driver, which comes with it's own 802.11 stack included, I decided to
rewrite this driver from the bottom up.
Many thanks to Johannes Berg for 802.11 insights and help and Larry
Finger for help with the vendor driver.
The full git log for the development of this driver can be found here:
git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jes/linux.git
branch rtl8723au-mac80211
This driver is still under development, but has proven to be very
stable for me. It currently supports station mode only. It has support
for OFDM and CCK rates. It does lack certain features found in the
staging driver, such as power management, AMPDU, and 40MHz channel
support. In addition it does not support AD-HOC, AP, and monitor mode
support at this point.
The driver is known to work with the following devices:
Lenovo Yoga (rtl8723au)
TP-Link TL-WN823N (rtl8192cu)
Etekcity 6R (rtl8188cu)
Daffodil LAN03 (rtl8188cu)
Alfa AWUS036NHR (rtl8188ru)
Compile tested only
Signed-off-by: Dirk Neukirchen <dirkneukirchen@web.de>
SVN-Revision: 48104
We don't use Kernel drivers but ucode -16 is
usable on Kernel 4.3+ - with backports and mac80211
this should work on older Kernel versions too.
Intel does not provide a changelog.
Signed-off-by: Dirk Neukirchen <dirkneukirchen@web.de>
SVN-Revision: 48103
Update dependencies for linux 4.4 and mark as broken where source code
needs updating.
Signed-off-by: Jonas Gorski <jogo@openwrt.org>
SVN-Revision: 47700
compat-wireless/backports now contains a bcm47xx_nvram.h file to
backport some of the functions in it which are used by the bcmfmac
driver. This file just checks for the kernel versions and provide an
empty implementations on older kernel versions. This is OK on most
systems, but on bcm47xx / bcm53xx systems we want to call the real
functions here. This commit removes the file from backports in our
build process like we do it with the bcma and ssb header files. Instead
we add a recent version into our kernel so all code uses only one
header file. On bcm47xx / bcm53xx the real implementations of this code
will be used.
Reported-by: Hante Meuleman <meuleman@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
SVN-Revision: 47467
The driver only supports wl18xx-fw-4.bin and does not support the old
firmware wl18xx-fw-3.bin and more.
The wl18xx-conf.bin file was removed upstream it does not fit all
devices any more, see this on how to generate one:
http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/Open_Source_Wireless_Connectivity_wlconf
If someone has a config file for the common platforms with the wifi nic
OpenWrt uses please send a patch.
Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
SVN-Revision: 46887
- should fix issue: https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=57315
- enable support of more USB stick with rt28xx chipsets
- experimental: USB-IDs not in vendor linux driver
- experimental: "exact chipset is unknown"
- experimental: "enabling these devices may or may not work"
only compile tested
Signed-off-by: Dirk Neukirchen <dirkneukirchen@web.de>
SVN-Revision: 46882
Everything except for blkcipher was already built-in, so make blkcipher
built-in as well.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
SVN-Revision: 46820
The ipw2x00 drivers assume that the system they are running is little
endian, and access everything in native byte order. When run on a big
endian system, everything breaks apart.
Since fixing this is non trivial on a first glance, disable them for
big endian targets.
Signed-off-by: Jonas Gorski <jogo@openwrt.org>
SVN-Revision: 46708
firmware is not available in linux-firmware yet
so use official driver source
Signed-off-by: Dirk Neukirchen <dirkneukirchen@web.de>
SVN-Revision: 46682
Ath debug mode applies to ath10k as well as ath9k.
Update Makefile help text to clarify.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Darbyshire-Bryant <kevin@darbyshire-bryant.me.uk>
SVN-Revision: 46468
Added option for old firmware version (10.1 API v2). It seems that recent
firmware versions are constantly crashing (at least on a QCA9880-BR4A-R) and
this provides the option to select an older version instead.
Signed-off-by: Günther Kelleter <guenther.kelleter@devolo.de>
SVN-Revision: 46340
Current firmware should work for station mode as well, and the older
firmware will usually behave worse and become unsupported over time.
Also, the MAC address handling on ar71xx is only implemented on one
firmware version.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
SVN-Revision: 46197
Felix Fietkau
Zoltan Herpai
Imre Kaloz
Jonas Gorski
Hauke Mehrtens
John Crispin