On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 10:19 PM, Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Jorge Munoz wrote: >> I'm a L300 Toshiba user, this laptop has a rtl8187 wifi card (Bus 007 >> Device 003: ID 0bda:8198 Realtek Semiconductor Corp.). >> Running down Ubuntu 8.10 kernel 2.6.27.9-generic based distro >> (www.molinux.info <http://www.molinux.info>), wifi does not work >> correctly, it fall down in few minutes. We can improve this behaviour by >> fixing bit rate ($iwconfig wlan0 rate 12M fixed). >> Now there is a new kernel 2.6.27-11-generic. I would like to know if >> there are improvements about this bug. >> All my colleagues from my region (Castilla La Mancha, Spain) have the >> same laptop (28.000 were delivered by spanish goverment). We have >> created a patch to fix the bit rate and I don't know if it's necessary >> maintain it. >> I'll be grateful for your support. That sounds like various things we have worked on recently. Unfortunately you will need to install compat-wireless (see http://linuxwireless.org/), or wait until about 2.6.30 to get some of the improvements. I say go and install compat-wireless and publicise your experience with compat-wireless to your colleagues, and if it does not work, come back. 2.6.27.9 is quite old. > > There have been patches for the RTL8187B in recent kernels that have > been sent to stable; however, I don't follow the updates to Ubuntu > kernels and do not know if they have been applied there. > > The main patch that did the most to improve stability for the rtl8187 > devices was: > > ================ > > commit 2fcbab044a3faf4d4a6e269148dd1f188303b206 > Author: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Fri Jan 23 11:46:32 2009 -0600 > > rtl8187: Add termination packet to prevent stall > > diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8187_dev.c > b/drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8187_dev.c > index 6ad6bac..22bc07e 100644 > --- a/drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8187_dev.c > +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8187_dev.c > @@ -273,6 +273,7 @@ static int rtl8187_tx(struct ieee80211_hw *dev, > struct sk_buff *skb) > > usb_fill_bulk_urb(urb, priv->udev, usb_sndbulkpipe(priv->udev, ep), > buf, skb->len, rtl8187_tx_cb, skb); > + urb->transfer_flags |= URB_ZERO_PACKET; > usb_anchor_urb(urb, &priv->anchored); > rc = usb_submit_urb(urb, GFP_ATOMIC); > if (rc < 0) { > > > > Larry > > -- > 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 > -- 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
