From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: Andres Cimmarusti <acimmarusti@gmail.com>
Cc: wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: realtek driver version in kernel
Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2011 15:04:40 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EB596D8.7030600@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH=dYrEbZ4woz8O6XoKwoRU2xENXmbzDjbvmWu76mA9MKJ0COw@mail.gmail.com>
On 11/05/2011 11:43 AM, Andres Cimmarusti wrote:
> Dear Mr. Finger,
>
> I apologize for the audacity of contacting you directly. I saw your
> name and email on one of the source files for the realtek wireless
> drivers.
> I have a question about the Realtek wireless driver (specifically
> rtl8192se) version included in kernels 3.0.x and 3.1.x.
>
> If I go to Realtek's website they mention a driver version:
> rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0004.0816.2011
>
> Is this included in kernel 3.0.x? or should I upgrade to 3.1?
>
> I've been having a lot of disconnection and reconnection issues with
> certain networks using a RTL8191SEvB (which loads the rtl8192se driver
> module). I don't know for sure what the problem is, but I've noticed
> that in areas (like university campuses) where there might be repeated
> access points for the same network with varying signal strengths, my
> connection is rather unstable and it keeps disconnecting and
> reconnecting (I suspect there is a problem reporting the signal
> strength to NetworkManager, which causes NM to get confused as to
> which network has stronger signal...I mean in NM 0.8.4 all networks
> listed show the same number of "bars"!). Since the rtl8192se is a
> relatively new driver in the kernel, I was hoping getting the newest
> version would help solve this issue.
>
> If you have any info regarding this issue I would appreciate it very
> much. I've seen some posts online that blame it on NM...I will try to
> peruse through their bugs and see...
Note that I only do private consulting for a fee. You should send everything
through the wireless ML, which I have added to this reply.
The newest version, i.e. 3.1, will have an improved driver. One with even more
improvements will be in the bleeding-edge compat-wireless package. It is
essentially the one for 3.2. Yes, rtl8192se is being improved regularly. All the
improvements in the 08/16/2011 driver are in compat-wireless.
The number of "bars" in the NM applet are hardly a good measure of signal
strength, but the driver does report a better value. I do not have an
environment where I can test roaming.
Larry
parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-05 20:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed
[parent not found: <CAH=dYrEbZ4woz8O6XoKwoRU2xENXmbzDjbvmWu76mA9MKJ0COw@mail.gmail.com>]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=4EB596D8.7030600@lwfinger.net \
--to=larry.finger@lwfinger.net \
--cc=acimmarusti@gmail.com \
--cc=linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).