From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: Rogerio Luz Coelho <rogluz.news@gmail.com>
Cc: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@mandriva.com.br>,
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@holoscopio.com>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/9] rtl8187: fix wrong register initialization in 8187B
Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2010 18:57:55 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CD0A583.40105@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinEsp+-EU4Oau71qHbL6ftO544+H4GA3WZk7CX5@mail.gmail.com>
On 11/02/2010 06:48 PM, Rogerio Luz Coelho wrote:
> Ok, I see the 8187b is in development.
>
> But PLEASE ask Thadeu Cascardo for his patch as it seems to fix the
> issue with these cards when connected to Laptop (Positivo Laptops in
> Brasil for instance), this would even let the Mandriva folks show
> Positivo that they don't need to ship the Mandriva 2008.0 woith their
> Linux Laptops anymore ...
>
> the patch he sent me FIXED the problem where the chip did not connect
> or when it did it would lose the connection right away...
>
> see
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/215802?comments=all
>
>
> I haven´t aplied any other patches and the one he sent me JUST WORKS,
> tested in a Ubuntu 10.04 64bit (64bit being important since the
> Realtek support told me they did NOT support 64bit with their linux
> drivers)
Realtek does not support 64-bit systems with most of their drivers, but we do.
In fact, I only do development on x86_64 and then test on i386.
Obviously, there is something special about the Toshiba/Brazil devices. The
patch that you need to make a cdonnection had absolutely no effect on mine.
Larry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-02 23:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-02 0:59 [PATCH 0/9] rtl8187: start cleanup/revisiting code Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
2010-11-02 0:59 ` [PATCH 1/9] rtl8187: remove redundant initialization of ARFR Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
2010-11-02 0:59 ` [PATCH 2/9] rtl8187: remove setting of beacon/atim registers from initialization Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
2010-11-02 0:59 ` [PATCH 3/9] rtl8187: fix wrong register initialization in 8187B Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
2010-11-02 2:42 ` Hin-Tak Leung
2010-11-02 2:46 ` Larry Finger
2010-11-02 3:01 ` Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
2010-11-02 23:48 ` Rogerio Luz Coelho
2010-11-02 23:57 ` Larry Finger [this message]
2010-11-03 0:01 ` Rogerio Luz Coelho
2010-11-03 0:45 ` Larry Finger
2010-11-03 1:06 ` Rogerio Luz Coelho
2010-11-03 1:44 ` Larry Finger
2010-11-04 14:06 ` Hin-Tak Leung
2010-11-04 14:15 ` Hin-Tak Leung
2010-11-05 20:30 ` Rogerio Luz Coelho
2010-11-03 13:28 ` Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
2010-11-04 2:41 ` Rogerio Luz Coelho
2010-11-04 2:57 ` Larry Finger
2010-11-02 3:01 ` Hin-Tak Leung
2010-11-02 0:59 ` [PATCH 4/9] rtl8187: avoid redundant write to register FF72 (RFSW_CTRL) Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
2010-11-02 0:59 ` [PATCH 5/9] rtl8187: move pll reset at start out of ANAPARAM write Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
2010-11-02 0:59 ` [PATCH 6/9] rtl8187: don't set RTL818X_CONFIG3_GNT_SELECT flag on 8187B Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
2010-11-02 0:59 ` [PATCH 7/9] rtl8187: consolidate anaparam on/off write sequences Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
2010-11-02 0:59 ` [PATCH 8/9] rtl8187: remove uneeded setting of anaparam write Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
2010-11-02 0:59 ` [PATCH 9/9] rtl8187: restore anaparam registers after reset with 8187B Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
2010-11-04 15:30 ` Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
2010-11-04 15:50 ` Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
2010-11-05 19:45 ` Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
2010-11-07 1:07 ` Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
2010-11-07 1:29 ` Hin-Tak Leung
2010-11-07 3:28 ` Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
2010-11-07 3:45 ` Larry Finger
2010-11-02 1:02 ` [PATCH 0/9] rtl8187: start cleanup/revisiting code Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
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