On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 8:55 PM, Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Saturday 04 October 2008 10:07:08 Stefanik Gábor wrote: >> On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Johannes Berg >> >> <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > On Sat, 2008-10-04 at 01:47 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: >> >> On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 1:32 AM, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: >> >> > On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 18:15 -0700, Keith Lofstrom wrote: >> >> >> >> What Realtek driver? Just FYI rtl8187 does *not* claim the RTL8187B. >> >> See: >> >> >> >> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/rtl8187 >> > >> > Oh, I thought there was a version now that did. >> > >> > johannes >> >> Hin-Tak Leung added support for RTL8187B a while ago, although it's >> still a bit buggy. Likely someone forgot to update the rtl8187 page on >> the wiki. CCing Hin-Tak and Herton. > > I created an account there now and did a minimal update on the page, please > take a look. There are some things we need to improve in the driver, we > received also an updated driver and a minimal datasheet but unfortunately > from my part I didn't had much success and time in playing/learning to > improve its support. Yes, rtl8187B is in recent kernel; it is still a bit buggy but the two external links - cuervo's link to an old version of the vendor driver ported forward and there is a newer vendor driver, but neither supports the latest kernel - and that's not entirely bug-free either; there has not been much activities at the sourceforge link, so that's really just for reference. I would say add these two pieces of information: - it is known that rate-control doesn't quite work with either rtl8187 or rtl8187b. "iwconfig rate <somerate> fixed" may work better under some circumstances. - we don't support rtl8187B with a product id 0x8198 (in some very new toshiba laptops) yet. It seems the vendor driver works to extent, but report against the community driver (by adding the id) has been inconclusive. -- 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
