Recent updates removed compatibility for adapter

[BananaNomNom]

OS: Arch version: 6.3.5-arch1-1

desc: When the driver was updated recently it removed compatibility for the wifi adapter ALFA (AWUS036ACH). This adapter was working until a recent update made the driver no longer recognize or assign the driver to it seen here.

usb-devices:

The driver itself is loaded in dkms and modprobe.

thinking this was a problem of it needing to be added as an id I ran the "echo VID PID > new_id" in the driver's directory where I still failed. dmesg shows this

dmesg:

[  977.609527] usb 1-9: new high-speed USB device number 7 using xhci_hcd
[  977.769756] usb 1-9: New USB device found, idVendor=0bda, idProduct=8812, bcdDevice= 0.00
[  977.769763] usb 1-9: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[  977.769766] usb 1-9: Product: 802.11n NIC
[  977.769769] usb 1-9: Manufacturer: Realtek
[  977.769771] usb 1-9: SerialNumber: 123456
[  977.769942] ACPI Error: Aborting method \_SB.PCI0.GPP2.PTXH.RHUB.PO13._PLD due to previous error (AE_AML_UNINITIALIZED_ELEMENT) (20221020/psparse-529)
[  977.796867] ACPI Error: Aborting method \_SB.PCI0.GPP2.PTXH.RHUB.PO13._PLD due to previous error (AE_AML_UNINITIALIZED_ELEMENT) (20221020/psparse-529)
[  977.796984] RTW: ### rtw_hal_ops_check - Error : Please hook hal_func.read_chip_version ###
[  977.796989] RTW: ### rtw_hal_ops_check - Error : Please hook hal_func.init_default_value ###
[  977.796992] RTW: ### rtw_hal_ops_check - Error : Please hook hal_func.intf_chip_configure ###
[  977.796995] RTW: ### rtw_hal_ops_check - Error : Please hook hal_func.read_adapter_info ###
[  977.796997] RTW: ### rtw_hal_ops_check - Error : Please hook hal_func.hal_power_on ###
[  977.797000] RTW: ### rtw_hal_ops_check - Error : Please hook hal_func.hal_power_off ###
[  977.797002] RTW: ### rtw_hal_ops_check - Error : Please hook hal_func.hal_init ###
[  977.797004] RTW: ### rtw_hal_ops_check - Error : Please hook hal_func.hal_deinit ###
[  977.797007] RTW: ### rtw_hal_ops_check - Error : Please hook hal_func.init_xmit_priv ###
[  977.797009] RTW: ### rtw_hal_ops_check - Error : Please hook hal_func.free_xmit_priv ###
[  977.797012] RTW: ### rtw_hal_ops_check - Error : Please hook hal_func.hal_xmit ###
[  977.797014] RTW: ### rtw_hal_ops_check - Error : Please hook hal_func.mgnt_xmit ###
[  977.797016] RTW: ### rtw_hal_ops_check - Error : Please hook hal_func.hal_xmitframe_enqueue ###
[  977.797019] RTW: ### rtw_hal_ops_check - Error : Please hook hal_func.init_recv_priv ###
[  977.797021] RTW: ### rtw_hal_ops_check - Error : Please hook hal_func.free_recv_priv ###
[  977.797023] RTW: ### rtw_hal_ops_check - Error : Please hook hal_func.inirp_init ###
[  977.797026] RTW: ### rtw_hal_ops_check - Error : Please hook hal_func.inirp_deinit ###
[  977.797028] RTW: ### rtw_hal_ops_check - Error : Please hook hal_func.dm_init ###
[  977.797030] RTW: ### rtw_hal_ops_check - Error : Please hook hal_func.dm_deinit ###
[  977.797033] RTW: ### rtw_hal_ops_check - Error : Please hook hal_func.hal_dm_watchdog ###
[  977.797035] RTW: ### rtw_hal_ops_check - Error : Please hook hal_func.set_chnl_bw_handler ###
[  977.797037] RTW: ### rtw_hal_ops_check - Error : Please hook hal_func.set_hw_reg_handler ###
[  977.797040] RTW: ### rtw_hal_ops_check - Error : Please hook hal_func.GetHwRegHandler ###
[  977.797042] RTW: ### rtw_hal_ops_check - Error : Please hook hal_func.get_hal_def_var_handler ###
[  977.797044] RTW: ### rtw_hal_ops_check - Error : Please hook hal_func.SetHalDefVarHandler ###
[  977.797046] RTW: ### rtw_hal_ops_check - Error : Please hook hal_func.GetHalODMVarHandler ###
[  977.797049] RTW: ### rtw_hal_ops_check - Error : Please hook hal_func.SetHalODMVarHandler ###
[  977.797051] RTW: ### rtw_hal_ops_check - Error : Please hook hal_func.SetBeaconRelatedRegistersHandler ###
[  977.797053] RTW: ### rtw_hal_ops_check - Error : Please hook hal_func.fill_h2c_cmd ###
[  977.797055] RTW: ### rtw_hal_ops_check - Error : Please hook hal_func.hal_mac_c2h_handler ###
[  977.797057] RTW: ### rtw_hal_ops_check - Error : Please hook hal_func.fill_fake_txdesc ###
[  977.797060] RTW: ### rtw_hal_ops_check - Error : Please hook hal_func.fw_dl ###
[  977.797062] RTW: ### rtw_hal_ops_check - Error : Please hook hal_func.set_tx_power_level_handler ###
[  977.797064] RTW: ### rtw_hal_ops_check - Error : Please hook hal_func.set_tx_power_index_handler ###
[  977.797066] RTW: ### rtw_hal_ops_check - Error : Please hook hal_func.get_tx_power_index_handler ###
[  977.797068] RTW: ### rtw_hal_ops_check - Error : Please hook hal_func.sreset_init_value ###
[  977.797069] RTW: ### rtw_hal_ops_check - Error : Please hook hal_func.sreset_reset_value ###
[  977.797071] RTW: ### rtw_hal_ops_check - Error : Please hook hal_func.silentreset ###
[  977.797072] RTW: ### rtw_hal_ops_check - Error : Please hook hal_func.sreset_xmit_status_check ###
[  977.797074] RTW: ### rtw_hal_ops_check - Error : Please hook hal_func.sreset_linked_status_check ###
[  977.797076] RTW: ### rtw_hal_ops_check - Error : Please hook hal_func.sreset_get_wifi_status ###
[  977.797077] RTW: ### rtw_hal_ops_check - Error : Please hook hal_func.sreset_inprogress ###
[  977.797079] RTW: ### rtw_hal_ops_check - Error : Please hook hal_func.init_mac_register ###
[  977.797080] RTW: ### rtw_hal_ops_check - Error : Please hook hal_func.init_phy ###

[MaxG87]

I am a bit puzzled here. No device IDs were removed, only new ones were added. The functions you mentioned were added in the very first commit and never changed afterwards.

You could try to add your device ID to os_dep/linux/usb_intf.c and see if it helps.

Additionally, you could git bisect through the driver (testing it using insmod) and report back the commit that broke it for you. Feel free to reopen the issue if you found the offending commit.