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

[yanhua]

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? I have mailed it several times, But 
someone's mail system rejected it out.

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.


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Yanhua