On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 1:59 PM, P.G. Richardson <p.g.richardson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > Have compiled and install the latest driver and success! Glad to hear. > Just to answer your questions ... > > dmesg didnt offer much information other than "link is not ready" No, my asking for "dmesg | grep rtl " wasn't for disagnostic purposes. There are 4-5 variants of the rtl8187b hardware, and they shows slightly different parts. e.g. mine says: phy0: hwaddr <address>, RTL8187BvE V0 + rtl8225z2 and yours probably will say 8187BvB with a B at the end, and some other for the 2nd part. I just like the info for curiosity, since you have a different rtl8187b from mine. > Should have explained the detail of "cannot ping". Essentially I take the > network down doing /etc/init.d/network stop. Change around which > ifcfg-interfaces start on boot then do /etc/init.d/network start. Thus, > the default route was always the active interface. > > Do not use NetworkManager and use static ip addresses. NetworkManager gives you the ability to switch interfaces quite easily and automatically and somewhat painlessly (when it works). If you want to have multiple interfaces active and working simultaneously, you need to learn a bit about routing, and do some homework. The issue you experienced is not specific to wireless but you would have the same issue with multiple wired ethernet interfaces; and somewhat irrelevant. > Anyway, hopefully everything is working. > > Thanks for the response. Let me know if you require any more info or would > like some testing done. If it breaks or not working well, you can come back :-). What's in compat-wireless now will eventually end up in mainline, but meanwhile if you upgrade your kernel and find that you need compat-wireless, it would be nice to know just for the record that "distribution X is not quite up-to-date". (some distros like Fedora do selective back-ports of some drivers or some fixes). Support of rtl8187b in 2.6.27 wasn't very good, but the changes in wireless-testing/compat-wireless is gradually being pushed into mainline; what is in compat-wireless today is mostly 2.6.30 material. > PS. A minor thing which is probably my fault. I compiled the driver using > make then ran make install. The latter installed the new mac82011, ifcfg > and b44 drivers. None of the other specific wireless drivers were copied > to the kernel update directory. I had to copy the rtl8187 there manually. That's wierd - are you sure? Compat-wireless is supposed to put the whole lot (about 50MB of kernel modules, nearly 50 of them) into updates, although only about 4-5 kernel modules are used for rtl8187b. -- 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
