Re: rt2500usb stopped working (vendor request error)

On Saturday 04 August 2007, Luis Correia wrote:
> Well, it may be an hardware error you got on your stick.

Nope, very doubtfully.
When he is using the latest version there would be a big warning
"Not an rt2500usb device" and the driver would halt loading after that.

> That or it is one of those wrongly named sticks which are actually
> rt73... but i don't really know.
> 
> One last test you could do, go to a friend that uses Windoze and see
> if it works as a client and if yes, which driver did it detect, rt73
> or rt2500usb.

Hmm checking if at least it works on windows would be an idea,
but I am really starting to suspect hardware problems...

Ivo
 
> On 8/4/07, dragoran <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Ivo van Doorn wrote:
> > > On Friday 03 August 2007, dragoran wrote:
> > >
> > >> thats what I am using it for....
> > >>
> > >
> > > I understand, but if you could test the legacy driver
> > > for any other mode to see if at least the hardware is
> > > all right.
> > > Managed and adhoc mode would already give a good
> > > idea about any possible hardware problems.
> > >
> > >
> > while testing the lagacy driver I got this messages:
> > usb 2-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4
> > usb 2-2: unable to read config index 0 descriptor/start
> > usb 2-2: chopping to 0 config(s)
> > usb 2-2: string descriptor 0 read error: -71
> > usb 2-2: string descriptor 0 read error: -71
> > usb 2-2: string descriptor 0 read error: -71
> > usb 2-2: no configuration chosen from 0 choices
> > and nothing worked....
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