On 08/10/2010 07:23 PM, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote: > > I've been working for some two weeks observing the behaviour of > rtl8187B. Thanks to someone's report (I think it was Rogerio's), I found > the realtek driver. It does seem to work a little better regarding > transmission. I have taken a look at the driver (it's GPLed) and done > some experiments, but couldn't find any particular difference that > magically make it work yet. > > I think the mmiotrace is not exactly what you want. Since these are USB > devices, usbmon dumps are much more readable and useful. I've made some > of my own, but still need to write some scripts to translate them to > something I can read and compare more easily. > > As soon as I get some patches that work for me and are field tested for > these particular device versions, I will send them to the list for > review and testing with other device versions. > > Larry, you mentioned in one of your messages about the specs. Are they > under an NDA or could you provide or ask for a copy? The spec sheets I have gotten from Realtek are minimal, but I do not have the right to redistribute them. > At a glance, the realtek driver seems to do some dynamic power gain > control. I will try this as one of my next steps. That sounds like a promising place to start. 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
