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

[yanhua]

The chip vendor have their considerations. They have no plan to port it 
to the main kernel tree. we have tried it ourselves. But it just didn't 
work as the vendor providing driver.

For the long run, we will do it. It may take a long time.
zhangfx 写道:
> 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.
>
> Regards
> Robert Millan 写道:
> > On Sat, Apr 04, 2009 at 02:29:58AM +0800, Zhang Le wrote:
> >  
> > > 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.
> > >     
> >
> > What's wrong with the new version of the driver anyway?  Perhaps it's 
> > just a
> > matter of adjusting a register.  I'm afraid I'm no expert in this 
> > area...
> >
> >   


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