Comments on: VIA VL805 USB 3.0 PCIe adapter: Forget about Linux (?) https://billauer.se/blog/2019/07/via-vl805-superspeed-pcie-linux/ Anything I found worthy to write down. Thu, 26 Mar 2026 13:15:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Alftest https://billauer.se/blog/2019/07/via-vl805-superspeed-pcie-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-1525 Alftest Sat, 14 Nov 2020 14:10:10 +0000 https://billauer.se/blog/?p=5767#comment-1525 Hi all. Hi have the same type card Orico Via Vl 805. This card give me very bad trip. Always work on first start with some kernel version but after one or two suspend the card is lost and any disk mount possible many error of communication etc..After have upgrade to the firmware about saying in the article from station driver that was a little bit better but horrible unstability...I have found by some post that the rpi4 have this chip and bin file for the vl805 and i see more recent version from july 2020.. so i try again a new firmware and this miracle..the card is running like she must run if was a good card. So i have update whith the flash tool from station driver and bin file version 138a1 from : https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-eeprom/raw/master/firmware/stable/vl805-000138a1.bin And i use the LTS Xanmod kernel 5.4.77-xanmod1 #0~git20201111.4ed38ba because more recent version give absolute crash of communication with the usb3 drive or other... I have not test with standard kernel because when i have done before the result was more bad than with Xanmod..perhaps now this ok too...but i haven't time to test and i always use the xanmod now. https://xanmod.org/ Hope that's resolve problem for many many of person because i have this card since 2016 and this a pity to use it on Linux..just able to use it after a fresh reboot..very very annoying.. i have try to rebind unbind it and so and so...change power management setting ..remove iommu and so..anything work...but now this work for me with the standard debian 10 install and Xanmod Lts kernel and firmware 138a1. The "wonderfull crashing card" buy in 11/11/2016 for reference.. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32572289266.html?spm=a2g0s.9042311.0.0.27424c4dsqpGP8 Hi all.
Hi have the same type card Orico Via Vl 805.
This card give me very bad trip. Always work on first start with some kernel version but after one or two suspend the card is lost and any disk mount possible many error of communication etc..After have upgrade to the firmware about saying in the article from station driver that was a little bit better but horrible unstability…I have found by some post that the rpi4 have this chip and bin file for the vl805 and i see more recent version from july 2020.. so i try again a new firmware and this miracle..the card is running like she must run if was a good card. So i have update whith the flash tool from station driver and bin file version 138a1
from :
https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-eeprom/raw/master/firmware/stable/vl805-000138a1.bin

And i use the LTS Xanmod kernel 5.4.77-xanmod1 #0~git20201111.4ed38ba because more recent version give absolute crash of communication with the usb3 drive or other… I have not test with standard kernel because when i have done before the result was more bad than with Xanmod..perhaps now this ok too…but i haven’t time to test and i always use the xanmod now.
https://xanmod.org/

Hope that’s resolve problem for many many of person because i have this card since 2016 and this a pity to use it on Linux..just able to use it after a fresh reboot..very very annoying.. i have try to rebind unbind it and so and so…change power management setting ..remove iommu and so..anything work…but now this work for me with the standard debian 10 install and Xanmod Lts kernel and firmware 138a1.

The “wonderfull crashing card” buy in 11/11/2016 for reference..

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32572289266.html?spm=a2g0s.9042311.0.0.27424c4dsqpGP8

]]> By: Frank https://billauer.se/blog/2019/07/via-vl805-superspeed-pcie-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-1482 Frank Tue, 10 Mar 2020 05:07:00 +0000 https://billauer.se/blog/?p=5767#comment-1482 The kubuntu 18.04 sees and writes to the LV805 chip embedded in my motherboard (even live disc) Debian live disc (early last years distro) also reconised it The website lists win10 driver support but I only have win7 & winxp on that motherboard The kubuntu 18.04 sees and writes to the LV805 chip embedded in my motherboard (even live disc)
Debian live disc (early last years distro) also reconised it

The website lists win10 driver support but I only have win7 & winxp on that motherboard

]]> By: Terry https://billauer.se/blog/2019/07/via-vl805-superspeed-pcie-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-1457 Terry Wed, 04 Dec 2019 22:12:31 +0000 https://billauer.se/blog/?p=5767#comment-1457 Apparently rolling back the firmware 013600 work as per this post : https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2390208 Apparently rolling back the firmware 013600 work as per this post : https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2390208

]]> By: eli https://billauer.se/blog/2019/07/via-vl805-superspeed-pcie-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-1454 eli Thu, 14 Nov 2019 07:18:20 +0000 https://billauer.se/blog/?p=5767#comment-1454 Tried again with Linux kernel 5.3.0 (most recent one as of today). Nothing changed. Tried again with Linux kernel 5.3.0 (most recent one as of today). Nothing changed.

]]> By: Douglas Decicco https://billauer.se/blog/2019/07/via-vl805-superspeed-pcie-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-1451 Douglas Decicco Tue, 15 Oct 2019 16:27:18 +0000 https://billauer.se/blog/?p=5767#comment-1451 The VL 805-Q6 cards we purchased online from Walmart for 9.66 usd per card worked fine here in the lab on LINUX. They work on both Fedora 26 (4.16.11-100.fc26.x86_64) and Fedora 28 kernels. These kernels run on two distinct motherboards and BIOS makes and models. We keep meticulous records of our dnf installs, and none have the case insensitive strings "pci" or "usb" or "tty" in the package name, so Fedora has apparently installed with what is needed for some time. Upon machine start-up, one of the PCI or USB or TTY related services created three fresh /dev/ttyACM* devices for Arduino Mega 2560 USB port and Due programming and native USB ports. They are providing upload and data transfer limited in speed only by the embedded USB ports and the C and C++ running at real time priority on LINUX. The VL 805-Q6 cards we purchased online from Walmart for 9.66 usd per card worked fine here in the lab on LINUX. They work on both Fedora 26 (4.16.11-100.fc26.x86_64) and Fedora 28 kernels. These kernels run on two distinct motherboards and BIOS makes and models. We keep meticulous records of our dnf installs, and none have the case insensitive strings “pci” or “usb” or “tty” in the package name, so Fedora has apparently installed with what is needed for some time. Upon machine start-up, one of the PCI or USB or TTY related services created three fresh /dev/ttyACM* devices for Arduino Mega 2560 USB port and Due programming and native USB ports. They are providing upload and data transfer limited in speed only by the embedded USB ports and the C and C++ running at real time priority on LINUX.

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