From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Radu Potop <wooptoo@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: rtl8180 driver in master/ad-hoc mode
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:08:53 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100212150853.GA4983@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B756B4C.2090204@gmail.com>
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 04:53:00PM +0200, Radu Potop wrote:
> I noticed that the rtl8180 (Realtek wireless PCI adapter) driver for
> Linux doesn't support master or ad-hoc mode. However the rtl-wifi driver
> from http://rtl-wifi.sourceforge.net does support these modes.
> After a bit of investigation, I found out that the driver from the
> kernel is not maintained by its original author anymore (no changes since
> 2007), while rtl-wifi development is active.
A bit too little investigation, it seems. The rtl8180 driver doesn't
get lots of attention, but it has been hit several times since 2007.
As for master and ad-hoc modes, I've recently taken interest there
and expect to be adding patches shortly.
> My question is if rtl-wifi will make it into the kernel? rtl-wifi is
> actually a fork of the old driver, but with a lot of added functionality.
> I'm sure that a lot of folks would like to use their hardware to its full
> potential.
No it will not. For one, svn indicates rtl-wifi is nowhere near as
active as you indicate:
/home/linville/svn/rtl-wifi
[linville-t400.local]:> svn log
------------------------------------------------------------------------
r83 | falmouth | 2008-07-09 08:52:33 -0400 (Wed, 09 Jul 2008) | 1 line
our CCMP, TKIP and WEP modules names end in -rtl
Beyond that, no one from there is posting any patches and in any case
it is rather rare to simply drop one more-or-less working driver in
favor of another one simply because it appears from nowhere.
Anyway, as I indicated I have been taking more interest in rtl8180
lately and I expect it to be greatly improved at least in time for
2.6.35 (since the 2.6.34 development cycle will be ending soon).
Hth!
John
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-12 14:53 rtl8180 driver in master/ad-hoc mode Radu Potop
2010-02-12 15:08 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2010-02-12 17:53 ` Radu Potop
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