Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Re: low wifi connectivity (rtl8187)

[Robert Millan]

On Sat, Apr 04, 2009 at 02:29:58AM +0800, Zhang Le wrote:
> On 19:50 Fri 03 Apr     , Robert Millan wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 10:59:17PM +0800, yanhua wrote:
> > >
> > > Robert Millan 写道:
> > >> On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 09:19:19PM +0800, fxzhang wrote:
> > >>   
> > >>> Have you tried the version of   
> > >>> http://dev.lemote.com/drupal/sites/default/files/rtl8187B_linux_26.1051.0116.2009_driver.tar.bz2
> > >>>
> > >>> with a matching network manager, it is almost faultless now.
> > >>>     
> > >>
> > >> I think Graziano tried it, but for a working solution I need the source 
> > >> code.
> > >> We don't publish sourceless binaries in gNewSense :-)
> > >>
> > >>   
> > >>> Yanhua: you can arrange to post the source software.
> > >>>     
> > >>
> > >> Great, thanks.  Can this code be merged into your linux_loongson git 
> > >> tree?
> > >>
> > >> It would be much easier to handle than a separate build system.
> > >>   
> > > Have you got the source code now?
> > 
> > A few times :-)
> > 
> > > The 8187b driver is somewhat imcompatible with current linux kernel. It  
> > > heavily modified the ieee80211 stack, which is deprecated by the current  
> > > linux implementaion. So we think merging it in the kernel tree is not  
> > > proper.
> > 
> > Is resyncing with recent ieee80211 stack out of the question?
> 
> IMHO, in the long run migrating the code to the new framework is the right 
> thing
> to do.
> 
> Otherwise, we would be stuck with an old linux kernel, or the code would just 
> die
> and we can't benefit from it any more.

What's wrong with the new version of the driver anyway?  Perhaps it's just a
matter of adjusting a register.  I'm afraid I'm no expert in this area...

-- 
Robert Millan

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