Re: [PATCH] rtlwifi/rtl8712u Revert firmware
From: Larry Finger
Date: Fri Sep 21 2012 - 12:14:10 EST
On 09/20/2012 05:31 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
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>
[...]
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?
Yes. Both of the updates work on my hardware (D-Link and Rosewill), but both
fail on an ASUS WL-167g v3 as reported privately to me. I will work with Realtek
and the OP to resolve the problem, and then update the fw once again.
Thanks,
Larry
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