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From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: raghunathan.kailasanathan@wipro.com
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: unable to put RTL8192SU in master mode
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 22:27:35 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D4245B7.1010906@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6D6CA94E9F944C45ABD35E9F7E1CAE619BBF56D5E7@BLR-SJP-MB02.wipro.com>

On 01/27/2011 10:05 PM, raghunathan.kailasanathan@wipro.com wrote:
>
> 
> Thanks Larry. I am using the 8712u, so it should be the realtek one. I am on
> a older kernel (2.6.27) hence using the staging one would require some backporting 
> effort.
> 
> BTW what are the key differences between both ? 

Only that r8712u works on 64-bit systems. In addition, it was cleaned up for
kernel inclusion. My starting source was a beta version that never got released.

Because it does not use mac80211, backporting might not be that difficult.

Larry


      reply	other threads:[~2011-01-28  4:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-27 13:31 unable to put RTL8192SU in master mode raghunathan.kailasanathan
2011-01-27 14:39 ` Larry Finger
2011-01-28  4:05   ` raghunathan.kailasanathan
2011-01-28  4:27     ` Larry Finger [this message]

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