Re: [PATCH] rtlwifi/rtl8712u Revert firmware

From: Ben Hutchings
Date: Fri Sep 21 2012 - 10:10:27 EST


On Mon, 2012-09-10 at 11:26 -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
> Although the newest firmware for the RTL8192SU, which is found in vendor
> driver rtl8188C_8192C_8192D_usb_linux_v3.4.2_3727.20120404, works with most
> devices, it causes drops of the wireless connection for the ASUS WL-167G V3
> (USB ID 0b05:1791), the D-Link DWA131 (07d1:3303), and probably others.
> Tests show that the firmware from vendor driver
> rtl8712_8188_8191_8192SU_usb_linux_v7_0.20100831 works better.
>
> This commerts reverts to that older firmware.
>
> Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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This is the original blob added by:

commit 8f919160792e4702c6b7a67a243cea4f757407e4
Author: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon Nov 1 23:56:52 2010 -0500

linux-firmware: Add firmware files for Realtek RTL8712U and RTL8192CE

There have been two updates since then:

commit f8ddc05e13c4c6dd9d725bc376b287f307eb223a
Author: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue Aug 16 11:12:14 2011 -0500

rtlwifi: rtl8712u: Upgrade to firmware found in vendor's V2.6.6

commit d8f60751d3f09545f51aac5d8e451f7668063ebf
Author: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Jul 11 13:18:30 2012 -0500

r8712u: Update to latest firmware

A new firmware file is used in the vendor driver with name/version
rtl8188C_8192C_8192D_usb_linux_v3.4.2_3727.20120404.

Sure you want to revert both of these, not just the latest?

Ben.

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