* Re: REALTEK 8187SE
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@ 2011-02-12 4:25 ` Hin-Tak Leung
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From: Hin-Tak Leung @ 2011-02-12 4:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Larry Finger; +Cc: Vinicius Piccoli, herton, linux-wireless
Larry Finger wrote:
> On 02/11/2011 08:44 PM, Vinicius Piccoli wrote:
>> Dear Friends
>>
>> I'm newbee in UBUNTU I have install 10.1 in my netbook, I have a
>> realteck 8187SE,
>> but can not make the wireless work, do you guys have a driver of
>> sofwarecontroler for it?
>>
>> The LAN is working fine!
>
> There is a driver in drivers/staging that has been there for quite a
> while. I'm not sure what kernel it first appeared in, but I know it is
> in 2.6.34. If Ubuntu does not enable it, then you will have either
> change distros, or build your own kernel.
>
> Larry
>
According to wireless-testing's log, the first kernel which a version of the
8187se staging driver is included is 2.6.29 .
The 8187se staging driver is essentially the same as the Realtek rtl8187se
vendor driver which is available as a standard-alone download (i.e. without the
rest of the kernel source tree, and build-able as such) from a variety of
on-line places, not least Ubuntu's laundpad as attachment to a few
bug/enhancement reports.
AFAIK, the 8187se is quite a different beast and uses the PCI interface and
closer to the 8180/8185(?), rather than the USB interface like the 8187L/8187B.
However, I found a few issues concerning your e-mail problematic:
1) You have obviously worked out that the 3 of us are the current 8187/8187B
maintainers, which suggests that you are not as newbie as you like us to believe
- all the 8187se info are available in the linux-wireless mailing list archive,
really, and you could have found the same info we gave you by similiar methods
you found our e-mail addresses. I am not your friend. I really do not know you.
2) I can't speak for the others, but I generally do not like people e-mailing me
privately (i.e. without CC'ing a relevant mailing list) on reasonably widely
applicable open-source issues. A private answer to a private question benefit
nobody else. That's the purpose of having mailing lists and mailing list
archives are for. If I want to receive e-mails from random unknown individuals
privately, I would charge them for it.
Hin-Tak
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