Re: Realtek wireless 8187se

["John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>]

On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 04:43:54AM -0200, Piter PUNK wrote:
> John W. Linville wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 06:41:01PM -0800, Jason Self wrote:
>>> On Dec 15, 2008, at 5:26 PM, "John W. Linville" 
>>> <linville@tuxdriver.com> wrote:
>>>> I have acquired an MSI Wind equipped with this device, I have
>>>> multiple variations of the vendor driver to support the hardware, and
>>>> I have a datasheet the covers at least some of the hardware involved.
>>>> I'm working on it...
>>> Why not share your work?
>>
>> What I have (which is barely anything) is on the "linville" branch
>> of wireless-testing...
>
> Hi John,
>
> I am using that branch on mine Positivo Mobo White (MSI Wind OEM). It
> loads the rtl8180 module, the wlan0 device appears but nothing more
> happens. No scans, no associations, etc.

There really is nothing there to activate the device, just some
infrastructure bits.

> I'm really lost looking the code, and vendor code is very very different
> of kernel code (at least to my eyes), isn't an easy job to "look vendor
> code -> adapt code to kernel". What can I do to help? Any special
> test case? Any log? Any tip to do the un-easy job?

Now that we are done with the holidays, hopefully I can make some
progress on this soon.  Until then, there isn't much for you to do...

John
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