Re: Realtek RTL8192SE support ? (aka r8192se_pci)

["François Valenduc" <francois.valenduc@tvcablenet.be>]

Le 21/02/11 17:43, Larry Finger a écrit :
> On 02/21/2011 10:12 AM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Larry
>> Finger<Larry.Finger-tQ5ms3gMjBLk1uMJSBkQmQ@public.gmane.org>  wrote:
>>> On 02/21/2011 03:35 AM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Dear all,
>>>>
>>>>    As far as I know driver for rtl8192su will be added to kernel
>>>> 2.6.38. By any chance does anyone knows if rtl8192se will make it into
>>>> this release ?
>>>
>>> As part of our collaborative effort, Realtek has sent me a
>>> mac80211-based
>>> driver for the RTL8192SE. It will be submitted to the wireless
>>> mailing list
>>> for review once the driver for the RTL8192CU is accepted. The
>>> earliest this
>>> would happen is 2.6.39, but I think 2.6.40 is more realistic. I also
>>> have a
>>> driver for the RTL8192DE that will follow the RTL8192SE.
>>
>> Dear Larry,
>>
>>    Thank you very much for taking the time to answer my question.
>>    Would it be possible to be part of some kind of testing group for
>> this 'new' driver. I have been using r8192se_pci (*) for a couple of
>> days, but I have the feeling this driver keeps filling in my
>> computer's memory. I have to reboot to clean the memory (I have not
>> found any other way).
>>
>> Using linux 2.6.37 from debian unstable
> 
> It will take me a few days, but I should be able to send you patches to
> incorporate the rtl8192se driver.
> 
> Larry
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I also volunteer to test this new driver. I often have problems with the
current driver provided by Realtek. It seems the connexion is quite
unstable and I often get kernel panic like this one:

rtl8192se_rx_normal+0x143/0x400
scheduler-tick+0xe1/0x2f0
tasklet-action+0xa8/0x60
_do_softirq+0xa5/0x130
ack_apic_level+0x6d/0x210
call_softirq+0x1c/0x30
do_softirq+0x4d/0x80
irq_exit+0x8d/0x90
do_irq+0x6b/0x0
ret_from_intr+0x0/0x	
[<EOI>]

acpi_idle_enter_c1+0xad/0xc7 [processor]
ack-idle-enter-c1+0x8d/0xc7 [processor]
cpuidle-idle-call+0x8c/0xf0
cpu-idle+0x58/0xb
skb-put+0x88/0x90

kernel panic not syncing fatal exception in interrupt PID: 0, comm:
kworker/0;1 Tainted G D 2.6.36

call trace:
panic+0xa1/0x1a3
oops_end+0xaf/0xe0
do_invalid_op+0x84/0xa0
skb_put+0x88/0x90
invalid_op+0x15/0x20
skb_put+0x88/0x90

I already asked realtek support about this but I didn't get a lot of
help from them. So, I would be interested to see if the new driver you
talked about perfoms better.

Thanks in advance,

François Valenduc