From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RTL8192SE support status
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 07:16:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090731141600.GA28088@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200907311431.17043.bzolnier@gmail.com>
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 02:31:16PM +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've been getting some private mail regarding the status of RTL8192SE
> wireless chipset support (the chipset is used in some newer netbooks,
> i.e. Medion Akoya E1312) so the current situation is:
>
> * I'm not working on it and I don't know if/when the driver is coming.
>
> * Realtek has been queried about the issue two weeks ago but we haven't
> heard anything back yet.
>
> * rtl8192su driver present in staging area of the kernel is for RTL8192SU
> (USB version of the chipset) and never contained working/complete code
> for RTL8192SE (PCI-E version of the chipset) so there is no point in
> attempts of reverting some patches in hope that it will make the things
> magically work (it won't, please save your time).
Thanks for letting us know, this helps out a lot.
greg k-h
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2009-07-31 12:31 RTL8192SE support status Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
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