On 11/02/2010 06:48 PM, Rogerio Luz Coelho wrote: > Ok, I see the 8187b is in development. > > But PLEASE ask Thadeu Cascardo for his patch as it seems to fix the > issue with these cards when connected to Laptop (Positivo Laptops in > Brasil for instance), this would even let the Mandriva folks show > Positivo that they don't need to ship the Mandriva 2008.0 woith their > Linux Laptops anymore ... > > the patch he sent me FIXED the problem where the chip did not connect > or when it did it would lose the connection right away... > > see > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/215802?comments=all > > > I haven´t aplied any other patches and the one he sent me JUST WORKS, > tested in a Ubuntu 10.04 64bit (64bit being important since the > Realtek support told me they did NOT support 64bit with their linux > drivers) Realtek does not support 64-bit systems with most of their drivers, but we do. In fact, I only do development on x86_64 and then test on i386. Obviously, there is something special about the Toshiba/Brazil devices. The patch that you need to make a cdonnection had absolutely no effect on mine. 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
