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On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 06:33:10AM +0100, Viktor Ilijašić wrote:

> The card is AirLive WL1600USB, PCI/USB ID 1b75:8187,
> url: http://www.airlive.com/product/product_3.jsp?pdid=PD1223473034861
> 
> I somehow have the feeling that the PCI/USB ID of this card is
> unrecognized by the module (if the module even recognizes hardware
> only by it's ID), since this is rather obscure ID (google only returns
> 2 results for that ID). I'm no expert, I might be wrong.

You might try applying the patch below and rebuilding your kernel.
Does that get the driver to recognize the device?

John

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diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8187_dev.c b/drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8187_dev.c
index 82bd47e..5da2bd7 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8187_dev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8187_dev.c
@@ -59,6 +59,8 @@ static struct usb_device_id rtl8187_table[] __devinitdata = {
 	{USB_DEVICE(0x0df6, 0x0028), .driver_info = DEVICE_RTL8187B},
 	/* Abocom */
 	{USB_DEVICE(0x13d1, 0xabe6), .driver_info = DEVICE_RTL8187},
+	/* AirLive */
+	{USB_DEVICE(0x1b75, 0x8187), .driver_info = DEVICE_RTL8187},
 	{}
 };
 

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