rtl8192su vs rtl8192u

Greg KH greg at kroah.com
Wed Mar 10 03:27:01 UTC 2010


On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 10:09:26PM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> What is the difference between rtl8192su and rtl8192u?  I see that both
> drivers have almost equivalent device tables.  rtl8192su supports two
> additional devices compared to rtl8192u, but all other devices are
> claimed by both drivers.

They are different hardware chips, the device table really should not be
the same, what ones are overlapping?

> The reason I'm asking is that I have bought a wireless device from
> hiroinc.com, which is identified by lsusb as 0bda:8171.
> 
> That ID is not in rtl8192su or rtl8192u device tables.  If I add the ID,
> rtl8192su works, rtl8192u doesn't:

Great, go with that, care to send a patch adding it?

thanks,

greg k-h



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