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

[Robert Millan]

On Sat, Apr 04, 2009 at 10:08:38AM +0800, zhangfx wrote:
> The problem is, current usable driver is from hardware vendor, they  
> maintain a modified deprecated protocol  for the driver, it will  
> conflict with the trend of mainstream, can hardly be accepted into main  
> stream.
>
> The proper way is to fix the issues of main stream driver(there is one).  
> But we lack of documents to do this. By comparing vendor's driver and  
> the main stream might lead to a solution, but it is not  easy because  
> some issues seems quite tricky.

I'll try if I get some time.  Do we have an RCS history of the old driver?

Or if not, at least a snapshot of what the source looked like exactly when
the vendor forked it.

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Robert Millan

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