Re: rtl8187b Problem with tx level

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

On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 12:16:04AM +0100, Hin-Tak Leung wrote:
> 2009/8/31 Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>:
> > Gábor Stefanik wrote:
> >>
> >> The driver is not actually closed-source; they just don't provide any
> >> drivers on their site anymore, instead they send their reference
> >> drivers to OEMs, expecting the OEMs to release their own versions
> >> (with sources - most vendors who do release Linux drivers in fact only
> >> release sources, without binaries). The reason for this appears to be
> >> that Realtek now encourages vendors to sell RTL81xx wireless chips
> >> with modified USB IDs. (Or are you seeing a binary-only driver on
> >> realtek.com.tw? That would definitely be a GPL violation, given that
> >> they use a modified version of the GPLed libipw stack.)
> >
> >
> > No driver at all. I looked at the Toshiba site, but found only Windows
> > drivers. Which OEM has the driver available?
> >
> > Larry
> 
> The r8187 is distributed from OEMs - stand to reason, as realtek don't
> really sell their own brand on high-street shops? We got one release
> e-mailed to us, and there are a few floating around on the internet
> under some laptop or usb hardware vendors. It is available under this,
> for example: http://service.one.de/index.php?&direction=0&order=&directory=NOTEBOOKS/ONE_A1XX/LINUX/Source-code/Wireless
> r8187mesh is the one in the mesh directory.

*sigh*

So Realtek is actually going backwards in their level of support?
Wonderful.

Anyone have any real-life contacts at Realtek?  We really need to
get them on-board with the drivers in the kernel.

John
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