Bug#673186: No support for DWA-140 rev.3 wireless (2001:3c15)
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Rob Gom wrote:
> With the attached patch my network adapter started working.
Yay. :) Thanks for checking.
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> What next? Are there chances to get this patch applied to Debian? Will
> these patches will be merged upstream (I couldn't find commit ids in
> gitweb for Linux kernel main trunk)? Do you need more info?
The patches are part of 3.4-rc1. I fear they're a little too invasive
for the 3.2-stable series[1], so I think the backport will need to be
Debian-specific.
Kernel team: please consider the following two patches[2] for sid:
b6df7f1d3b05 rt2x00:Add debug message for new chipset
2ed7188447fd rt2x00:Add RT5372 chipset support
The former makes it a little easier to debug unsupported chipsets,
by printing which chipset a USB wireless interface uses. The latter
adds support for a chipset not supported before, as used for example
in Rob's DWA-140 rev.3.
Hope that helps,
Jonathan
[1] See Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt if curious. If the code
were a little more data-driven, it might have been feasible to include
support for new chips like this in an upstream point release. But
that's easy to say in hindsight.
[2] http://bugs.debian.org/673186#10
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