How many are interested or have rt5390 wifi?

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Before going much further,

How many people have/use this chip since it’s circa. 2010/2011.
Is there a desire/demand for such a driver or is this a lost cause?
let me know.

[Forum Admin rokytnji]

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harry@biker:~
$ inxi -N
Network:   Card-1: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Network Connection driver: e1000e 
           Card-2: Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 [Taylor Peak] driver: iwlwifi 

Not me. Sorry. But glad to know when ath9k is needed , in case I need it. It is around,

https://wiki.debian.org/ath9k

Edit: Forgot to mention. Sometimes with atheros wifi chips on AntiX. I check for any missing firmware usually with dmesg.

harry@biker:~
$ dmesg | grep firmware
[    3.727666] psmouse serio2: trackpoint: IBM TrackPoint firmware: 0x0e, buttons: 3/3
[    6.858449] platform regulatory.0: Direct firmware load for regulatory.db failed with error -2
[    6.957184] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: loaded firmware version 18.168.6.1 op_mode iwldvm

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Yeah I’ve used atheros ones in my laptops with good results speed wise…haven’t
done much range testing though…
my other cards are:

atheros ar5b91, ar5b97, and ar5b125 laptop pci-e half link chips using the ath9k driver.

also an old smc usb g that works from kernel 2.4 all the way to the new 4.20 one.
it’s a

smcwusb-g and uses the zd1211rw driver

It just bugs me that the rt5390 don’t work on newer kernels when it did work on the 2.6 – 3.6
ones … it just won’t build against the newer ones. I might try switching the gcc version too.

I think we might have to start a poll/survey on a new thread to see which cards/chips people
have good results with and what version (stable, stesting, or unstable) are using.

[Member alanwake82]

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I’m interested 😛

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