--- On Wed, 30/7/08, Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: <snipped> > Linux-wireless had a post this morning > (http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/18727) It is this thread instead: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/18676 There is actually another known 0x8198 user: (added CC:) http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10900 who I have sent the last driver a few weeks ago (?) and yet to hear from. > from a guy > that is trying to get one of the 8198 Toshiba devices > working. It was going > off-line every 6 seconds and he wondered if there was a > watchdog timer that was > expiring, and wondered if we had the datasheet. I sent him > all the patches we > have, and thought I would send him the datasheet if it > would not be a problem. > > With the latest patches, he has better success; however, it > is still going > off-line on him. > > BTW, With the latest set of patches I have been on-line > continuously for 16 > hours with my RTL8187B. 2.6.27-rc1 would likely be the same as wireless-testing at 2 weeks ago, i.e. known to be broken due to the tx seq number problem. The stop after 6 seconds/6 ping packets, I have already reported/mentioned a few times - The tx seq number fix is needed. None of the patches are in wireless- testing yet, so wireless-testing does not work either. About 8187B datasheet: yes, we have been in touch with realtek and we have the 8187B datasheet - this is probably not a big secret, since one of Larry's(?) recent stats commit mentions this. Whether we have the right to give it away is another issue; they have a linux driver and choose not to put it out publicly, so they probably don't want the datasheet posted publicly either. On difference between 8197 and 8198: this is actually a direct question I asked the Realtek folks (and Larry/Herton/John CC'ed in) a few weeks ago. Their answers were a bit contradictory from my reading: they said there is no programmatic difference between 8197 and 8198, but also say that they cannot give us the 8198 datasheet (which suggest there is a *different* datasheet, and there are differences). I think there might be some language issue involved (most of the Realtek people seems to be based in Mainland or Taiwan), and I was tempted to ask them to switch to Chinese if it is easier for them... I would suggest, make sure one has all the latest patches (the tx seq number fix patch in particular). The mutex lock patch seems to improve life with Network Manager/wpa_supplicant, so depends on whether one is trying to connect manually or system-config-network or via network manager. (manaually/system-config-network works better). There are 3 patches outside 2.6.27-rc1/wireless-testing at the moment: the improved stats patch, the tx seq number patch, the mutex lock patch. __________________________________________________________ Not happy with your email address?. Get the one you really want - millions of new email addresses available now at Yahoo! http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/ymail/new.html -- 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
