Em Thursday 10 April 2008 00:39:58 Larry Finger escreveu: > Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski wrote: > > Hi, this patch (made against wireless-testing repository) adds support for > > 8187B to the rtl8187 module. > > I want to give a "heads up" to the users of this driver. This > afternoon, I was using flood pings on my RTL8187B at different > transmission rates to determine how well the device worked. In the > middle of the 3rd test, the device failed, and no longer has the > ability to transmit. I have no way of knowing if that was just the > time that it failed, or if the driver is overpowering the transmitter. > In any case, you should watch for problems. Can you open your dongle and see if you really have a RTL8187B? (as you said you had to force the ID). May be it wasn't really a 8187b device but another variant. I did many tests this week with a 8187b that continues to work ok. > > 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
