2010/11/2 Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: > 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 > No effect is better than "regression" right? I am not saying the chip got magically better, it still seems a cheap POS, but with Cascardo's patch is as good as the Win7 driver here. Rogerio -- 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
