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How does this compare to what TP-Link provides on their website?
Hey, sorry for creating an Issue for that question.
I just wanted to know how is this related to what you could download from http://www.tp-link.com/us/download/TL-WN722N.html#Driver
It looks like TP-Link's version was last updated quite long ago (the archive says 20150417 in its name) but the version of the driver is 4.3.0.8 which is the most recent one I could find anywhere (maybe except this repo).
I tried your driver at first and it was working flaky - sometimes connections would just hang although ip addr shows that I'm still connected and have an IP address and my traffic is still routed through the WiFi dongle.
I ended up trying out TP-Link's driver but it was not ready for 4.* kernel so I had to patch it a bit. It seems like it's working better now. I'm not sure if I should submit this patch anywhere.
Hey @nikita2206. I'd be interested to see what you changed to make the TP-Link driver work under 4.*, so if you could provide a patch regardless of it's usefulness to this specific project then that'd be great. In particular, I'm struggling with references to struct members like STATION_INFO_TX_PACKETS which I believe have been replaced in 4.x...
@JosephRedfern sure, yeah some of these weren't that easy to find. Here you go:
https://gist.github.com/nikita2206/5b5f009cd3f89105d82d2e8c51c9758d
(keep in mind though I broke compatibility with older kernel in some places)
@nikita2206 Great, thanks for that. I also found this repo: https://github.com/mfruba/kernel which has some similar fixes applied -- although your code may be a little neater!