Re: [Gnewsense-dev] 2.6.31.6 kernel feedback

[Wu Zhangjin]

On Fri, 2009-11-20 at 09:30 +0800, Wu Zhangjin wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 21:29 +0100, Sam Geeraerts wrote:
> > Frederique W. Piccart schreef:
> > > Compared to the previous kernel that had been put up a week or two ago,
> > > nothing much changed for me, wireless got worse.
> > > 
> > > It seems, regardless if you press Fn + F5 at boot or not, that radio will
> > > always be off at the beginning. Shortly after this there is a 40 - 50
> > > second DHCP timeout procedure, which afterwards, the kernel will enable
> > > wireless, but doesn't bother to connect to the Internet.
> > 
> > Wifi isn't working at all for me with 2.6.31.6. lsmod shows rtl8187b 
> > instead of r8187.

rtl8187b is the wifi driver(r8187) optimized for yeeloong netbook, it
has been managed as a standalone module outside of the kernel, I have
merged into 2.6.29 and the later versions to make it be easier to
maintain and also make users config it directly when compiling kernel.

>  No amount of pressing Fn+F5 activates the LED nor a 
> > wifi connection. dmesg shows this a few times:
> >

And also, if no yeeloong_laptop module existed, you can also enable it
via /sys/class/rfkill/rfkill0/state, that is a standard interface
provided by the rfkill subsystem. 

Regards,
        Wu Zhangjin