2010/11/2 Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: > On 11/02/2010 07:01 PM, Rogerio Luz Coelho wrote: > 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. > > If you apply Herton's series of 9 patches, you should see a throughput > improvement. On my card, I get full performance from the 54M rate (27 Mb/s), > whereas the best I could do before those patches was 11 Mb/s. > > Incidentally, making the Realtek drivers work on x86_64 is not that difficult. > In any place that they cast a pointer as (u32), that gets changed to > (__kernel_size_t). The other place that is affected is due to changes in the skb > buffer parameters tail and data, which are pointers in 32-bit, and offsets in > 64-bit systems. The main point is that you cannot ignore any gcc warnings. > > Larry :) My biggest issue wasn't actually doing the patch, it was actually compiling the damn thing on Ubuntu, that's what you get when you install a distro that tells you in their kernel help page that they don't WANT you to be able to compile your own kernel. But as I said the connect - disconnect is gone. I will try the new patches alone and with Cascardo's ... will post result 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
