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Comment 5 for bug 779932

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Wolfgang Kufner (wolfgangkufner) wrote : Re: [Bug 779932] Re: Wrong driver loaded for wireless usb adapter DWL-G122 (rev.E)

Seems power save mode was just fixed for PCI then in 2.6.39 so far. I
looked at the commits[1] and found this one[2]:

>rt2x00: Add autowake support for USB hardware
>
>The USB drivers don't support automatically waking up when in powersaving mode,
>add a work object which will wakeup the device in time to receive the next beacon.
>Based on that beacon, we either go back into powersaving mode, or we remain awake
>to receive the buffered frames for our station.

If that is what fixes the bug in power save mode then kernel 3.0
should work. Could you test with 3.0-rc1[3]?

[1] http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux%2Fkernel%2Fgit%2Fnext%2Flinux-next.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=rt2x00
[2] http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git;a=commit;h=1c0bcf89d85cc97a0d9ce4cd909351a81fa4fdde
[3] http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.0-rc1-oneiric/