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

[Zhang Le]

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.

Zhang, Le
http://zhangle.is-a-geek.org