r8712u driver on Power PC host
Greg KH
gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Tue Nov 20 17:14:50 UTC 2012
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 05:12:51PM +0000, Avner Flesch wrote:
> Greg,
>
> Thanks for your attention:
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Greg KH [mailto:gregkh at linuxfoundation.org]
> > Sent: ג 20 נובמבר 2012 18:42
> > To: Avner Flesch
> > Cc: devel at linuxdriverproject.org
> > Subject: Re: r8712u driver on Power PC host
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 07:18:14AM +0000, Avner Flesch wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I would like to know if the RTL8192 driver in staging (r8712u) is
> > > supported also by Power architecture?
> >
> > It should, but odds are, no one has ever tested this, so there might be some
> > endianness issues in the driver.
> >
> > > Because I have an issue with loading the r8712 firmware.
> >
> > What specifically are the issues?
> I don't know what is the problem but I get the following printings:
>
> usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 2 using fsl-ehci
> usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=7392, idProduct=7622
> usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
> usb 1-1: Product: RTL8192S WLAN Adapter
> usb 1-1: Manufacturer: Manufacturer Realtek
> usb 1-1: SerialNumber: 00e04c000001
> r8712u: DriverVersion: v7_0.20100831
> r8712u: register rtl8712_netdev_ops to netdev_ops
> r8712u: USB_SPEED_HIGH with 4 endpoints
> r8712u: Boot from EFUSE: Autoload OK
> r8712u: CustomerID = 0x0000
> r8712u: MAC Address from efuse = 80:1f:02:65:13:88
> r8712u: Loading firmware from "rtlwifi/rtl8712u.bin"
> r8712u: Firmware request failed
Are you sure you have the firmware on your system to be loaded?
greg k-h
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