Re: I: RTL8187 driver in linux 3.4

[Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>]

On 06/01/2012 09:50 AM, Jacopo Runchi wrote:
> Thank you for the help on the request below.
>
> Bye, Jacopo.
>
> *Da:*Jacopo Runchi [mailto:jacoporunchi@hotmail.it]
> *Inviato:* venerdì 1 giugno 2012 15:21
> *A:* 'herton@canonical.com'; 'htl10@users.sourceforge.net';
> 'Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net'
> *Oggetto:* RTL8187 driver in linux 3.4
>
> Hi, I write to you because I found you are the maintainers of the driver in subject.
>
> Hi, I’m working with a USB device using chipset RTL8187 connected to a mips
> router with Openwrt.
>
> With the old driver r8187l.ko in linux 2.4.x it works fine.
>
> With the RTL8187 driver, if the signal is not good enough, it can establish a
> connection, but it doesn’t transfer datas (no ping for example).
>
> I think it is a bug of the driver, so I would like to know if you know this bug
> and if you have planned to solve it…
>
> There is any change planned on this driver?
>
> I hope for a generous answer and I’m sorry for my bad English.

The address looks OK to me. I do not know why it bounced.

My involvement with the RTL8187 devices only started with 2.6.X, where X is 25 
or 26. I have no knowledge of the driver in kernel 2.4.

There have been various complaints about the driver, particularly on RTL8187L 
hardware, that concern rate setting using the minstrel algorithm. I have been 
unable to reproduce the results.

Please answer the following questions;

Does the device work is you lock the rate at 1 Mbps?

What is the USB ID as shown by lsusb?

Does it work when you use the PID rate-setting algorithm? To enable this, you 
will need to set CONFIG_EXPERT=y.

Larry


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