Re: New firmware for RT2870
Larry Finger wrote: > I downloaded the firmware from b.k.o. It had very little effect on my no-name > adapter with ID 148f:3070. It still gets ping losses of 10-15%. I have tested 0.36 on a 148f:3070 (high quality) device for 4 hours, and it has worked *flawlessly* . (Fedora 23 + updates-testing.repo - kernel-4.4.4-301 - wpa_supplicant-2.4-7 AP: Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH2 running OpenWrt-snapshots-2016-Mar-09 [1]) Last year I have been in touch with Mediatek crew, and they said(12/09/2015): "According to the engineers comment, the firmware didn't change much these years, just some bbp register update and led stuff." [1] Friends don't let friends run stock router firmware. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: New firmware for RT2870
On 03/09/2016 08:15 PM, quarkverse wrote: I have an RT5370 adapter from Panda Wireless and use it on my Ubuntu 14.04 laptop. It is working fine on my laptop. From my laptop: rt2x00lib_request_firmware: Info - Firmware detected - version: 0.29 I didn't see the warnings reported in the Bug 114151. Just curious how to test version 0.36 on my laptop.\\ Go to https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114151 and copy the attachment to your ~/Downloads directory. Then do the following: sudo cp /lib/firmware/rt2870.bin /lib/firmware/rt2870.bin_old sudo cp ~/Downloads/rt2870.bin /lib/firmware/. sudo modprobe -rv rt2x00usb sudo modprobe -v rt2x00usb If your testing shows a regression in performance, then you can recover by copying rt2870.bin_old to rt2870.bin in /lib/firmware. Larry -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: New firmware for RT2870
On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 9:22 PM, Larry Finger wrote: > In https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114151, the OP reports > improved stability and performance for an RT5370 using a newer firmware that > came with the driver CD. The logs show this to be version 0.36, whereas the > version now in linux-firmware is version 0.29. > > I downloaded the firmware from b.k.o. It had very little effect on my > no-name adapter with ID 148f:3070. It still gets ping losses of 10-15%. > > Should this new version be submitted to linux-firmware? Its provenance seems > to be sketchy, but submission would likely be legal. Version 0.36 can also be found in the vendor tarball on [1] even though it references a different chip ... So, in my opinion this should be safe from a legal point of view. Helmut [1] http://www.mediatek.com/en/downloads1/downloads/mt7612u/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: New firmware for RT2870
On Wed, Mar 09, 2016 at 02:22:45PM -0600, Larry Finger wrote: > In https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114151, the OP reports > improved stability and performance for an RT5370 using a newer firmware that > came with the driver CD. The logs show this to be version 0.36, whereas the > version now in linux-firmware is version 0.29. > > I downloaded the firmware from b.k.o. It had very little effect on my > no-name adapter with ID 148f:3070. It still gets ping losses of 10-15%. > > Should this new version be submitted to linux-firmware? Its provenance seems > to be sketchy, but submission would likely be legal. I do not see any reason not to update ralink firmwares in linux-firmware git tree, however IIRC linux-firmware maintainers prefer to firmware submission was performed from vendor email addresses. Stanislaw -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: New firmware for RT2870
I have an RT5370 adapter from Panda Wireless and use it on my Ubuntu 14.04 laptop. It is working fine on my laptop. >From my laptop: rt2x00lib_request_firmware: Info - Firmware detected - version: 0.29 I didn't see the warnings reported in the Bug 114151. Just curious how to test version 0.36 on my laptop. Thanks. Alan On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 12:22 PM, Larry Finger wrote: > In https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114151, the OP reports > improved stability and performance for an RT5370 using a newer firmware that > came with the driver CD. The logs show this to be version 0.36, whereas the > version now in linux-firmware is version 0.29. > > I downloaded the firmware from b.k.o. It had very little effect on my > no-name adapter with ID 148f:3070. It still gets ping losses of 10-15%. > > Should this new version be submitted to linux-firmware? Its provenance seems > to be sketchy, but submission would likely be legal. > > Larry > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in > the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
New firmware for RT2870
In https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114151, the OP reports improved stability and performance for an RT5370 using a newer firmware that came with the driver CD. The logs show this to be version 0.36, whereas the version now in linux-firmware is version 0.29. I downloaded the firmware from b.k.o. It had very little effect on my no-name adapter with ID 148f:3070. It still gets ping losses of 10-15%. Should this new version be submitted to linux-firmware? Its provenance seems to be sketchy, but submission would likely be legal. Larry -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
