Hi. It seems to work fine with WEP. I found a serious problem with WPA-PSK, I will file a bug today. This problem is reproduced with built-in driver without these patches.
$ dmesg | grep vt6656 [ 5.099962] vt6656_stage: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned. [ 5.456957] usbcore: registered new interface driver vt6656 [ 110.531902] usb 1-6: firmware: requesting vt6656.fw $ wpa_cli status Selected interface 'wlan0' bssid=00:21:91:d9:8c:6f ssid=bxe id=0 pairwise_cipher=WEP-40 group_cipher=WEP-40 key_mgmt=NONE wpa_state=COMPLETED ip_address=192.168.0.102 2010/6/11 Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> > On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 04:39 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 03:43 +0300, Dmitry Baryshev wrote: > > > Package: linux-source-2.6.32 > > > Version: 2.6.32-9 > > > Severity: important > > > > > > > > > I have VIA wifi card, it requires VT6656 driver. linux-2.6.32 contains > > > driver for it, but it cannot be compiled: > > > > > > > > > make[8]: *** No rule to make target > > > `drivers/staging/vt6656/firmware.o', needed by > > > `drivers/staging/vt6656/vt6656_stage.o'. Stop. > > > > > > > > > > > > I used "debuild -b -uc -us -j2" to build the package. > > > > > > > > > AFAIR, VIA has this driver as a separate source package, which works > > > under 2.6.27. Why doesn't the built-in driver work in 2.6.32? Thanks! > > > > This is a staging driver (i.e. low-quality) which we have not been > > requested to build. We have removed the firmware from it in order to > > comply with the DFSG. I will investigate whether it is possible to make > > the driver work with an external firmware image. > > Please apply the attached patches, install vt6656.fw under > /lib/firmware, then build and test the driver. > > Ben. > > -- > Ben Hutchings > Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse. > -- Regards, Krasu
0003-vt6656-Dont-remove-firmware.c.patch
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