Em Wednesday 09 April 2008 12:46:53 Larry Finger escreveu: > Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski wrote: > > Hi, this patch (made against wireless-testing repository) adds support for > > 8187B to the rtl8187 module. > > Thanks for your efforts. If this driver had been available two months > ago, it would have made my life much simpler. > > Don't get too discouraged about the negative comments - that kind of > diligence is what makes Linux so robust, and keeps this open-source > project from chaos. Thanks, ok no problem :) > > Once your patches get more stabilized, I will be submitting one to > handle my hardware, which is a LevelOne WNC-0301USB. For some reason, > it has an idProduct code of 0x8187, not 0x8189, and one has to look at > the iProduct value. For early testing, I am just forcing it to be an > 8187B. For my information, what is the iProduct value for your device? Mine here reports iProduct = 2 RTL8187B_WLAN_Adapter It's a Quanta IL1 mini-notebook with 8187b builtin. > > I did only minimal testing. The USB device was only about 1 meter from > the AP. It connected with a WPA-encrypted network in about the same > time as my BCM43xx devices do. > > I do have one minor comment - I prefer to see signal and noise values > in dBm, not as xx/65. It's using the same signal/noise reporting as original rtl8187, we can change it, I also found it was strange this way. > > Good job, > > Larry -- []'s Herton -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
