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

[Robert Millan]

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?

-- 
Robert Millan

  Got Mono? Buy Some Peace of Mind™ - http://tinyurl.com/dc6nud