Hello, I wanted to give a try to your compat-wireless bleeding edge drivers. I have an RTL8187 based wlan chip on my laptop. After installing the driver I was not able to use the WiFi anymore as the driver reports that the kill switch is active no matter in what position I turn the switch on the side of the laptop. Here's the dmesg output of the chip detection: [ 20.686680] phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'minstrel' [ 20.687554] phy0: hwaddr 00:1b:9e:eb:77:98, RTL8187BvE V0 + rtl8225z2 [ 20.710529] rtl8187: Customer ID is 0x04 [ 20.710588] Registered led device: rtl8187-phy0::tx [ 20.710611] Registered led device: rtl8187-phy0::rx [ 20.711393] rtl8187: wireless switch is off I checked the driver and found the rtl8187_rfkill.c. I added some prink's to see what's happening and noticed that the physical switch did affect different bit than the one tested in the current driver. This change enables the correct behavior on my laptop: --- rtl8187_rfkill.c.orig 2009-12-02 14:12:34.646597569 +0200 +++ rtl8187_rfkill.c 2009-12-02 14:10:09.474593370 +0200 @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ static bool rtl8187_is_radio_enabled(str rtl818x_iowrite8(priv, &priv->map->GPIO0, gpio & ~0x02); gpio = rtl818x_ioread8(priv, &priv->map->GPIO1); - return gpio & 0x02; + return gpio & 0x04; } I tried to contact Realtek to provide me with some specs so that I can verify the register in question, but all I received was a reply with the realtek's reference driver attached. I haven't got any answer to my follow-up request for the specification. I looked through the reference driver but could not find anything informational. I didn't have time to do a full review, though. Without the specification I can't tell how this can be fixed. People have reported success with the current driver, haven't they, so the bit is correct for them. As soon as distributions start shipping the new rtl8187 driver there are people whose wlan stops working. I don't know if the killswitch with rtl8187 chipsets is suppose to be only created with software but at least in my laptop it didn't matter in which position the switch was with older drivers, the radio worked anyway. Any thoughts how to continue with this? -- Antti
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