On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 01:36:51PM -0400, Sid Hayn wrote: > On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 7:56 AM Stanislaw Gruszka <sgrus...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > > On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 11:18:57PM -0400, Sid Hayn wrote: > > > Sorry to bump the one thing that we both agreed was low priority but.... > > > > > > So was testing all of my dongles that use the driver you are working > > > on, and running them through my connect scripts. I moved the AP to > > > maybe <5ft from the clients and something wierd happened. The t1u > > > tried to connect to one of the 2.4GHz only networks. It failed, but > > > it actually got enough scan data back to attempt authentication with a > > > valid 2.4GHz only bssid. Which means in short, that the eeprom isn't > > > lying and your parsing of it is correct. Something obviously makes > > > this a 5GHz only device, as the connection failed and most of the time > > > nothing at all is seen on 2.4GHz, but clearly it's some filter or > > > antenna or some other mechanism which makes it 5GHz only. So probably > > > hardware lying to you is now even lower on your list since this safely > > > rules out the driver parsing the eeprom incorrectly. > > > > First of all would be good to check if problem is not already solved, > > latest version of the driver can be found here: > > https://github.com/nbd168/wireless > > Booting that kernel gets me instant to near instant kernel panics, so > I am unable to test much.
This has to be fixed as well, can you provide kernel messages ? > > Second, is there vendor driver available for this particular device? > > Perhaps there are some tweeks needed that are not provided by generic > > driver. > > No clue, haven't even tried to look. This hardware was all sitting on > a shelf till it looked like a real driver was being merged into the > kernel.... so um, thanks :-) Why do you think device is 5GHz only? This is very unusual. I know only single-band 2.4GHz or dual-band 2.4GHz & 5GHz devices. Regards Stanislaw
