RTL8192ee

RTL8192ee

[Larry Finger]

Burton,

I inadvertently deleted your E-mail, thus I cannot reply to it.

I am sorry that you have not had access to a driver for your wireless card. The 
initial driver was accepted into Linux in May 2014 in staging. It was probably 
not available to you because your distro is one of those that does not enable 
staging drivers. Perhaps you should consider a different distro.

In addition to that driver, another version of the one in kernel 3.18 was made 
available in a GitHub repo that was created in August 2014. That one contains 
all the newest versions, and was the source of the changes introduced in kernel 
3.18.

I have worked very hard on getting these drivers into the kernel. Comments like 
yours make me wonder if it has been worth my effort.

Larry

RE: RTL8192ee

[Jason Plum]

Larry,

I know that to some degree I am jumping this chain. That being said, please allow me to offer encouragement in the development of the rtl8192ee, rtl872ae, and the other members of the rtlwifi_new github.

I have been using these myself, and keeping them in my sights as my commercial product that has to support these drivers is being developed. There are some hiccups as is to be expected, but your work is greatly appreciated. I strive to keep our product as free of vendor proprietary code as much as possible and you work with rtlwifi_new and the available integration with multiple revisions of the kernel has been a recent key to that effort.

Jason Plum
Sr. Software Engineer
Devon IT
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From: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org [linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Larry Finger [Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net]
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2015 9:22 PM
To: burton.b.williams@gmail.com >> Burton Williams
Cc: linux-wireless
Subject: RTL8192ee

Burton,

I inadvertently deleted your E-mail, thus I cannot reply to it.

I am sorry that you have not had access to a driver for your wireless card. The
initial driver was accepted into Linux in May 2014 in staging. It was probably
not available to you because your distro is one of those that does not enable
staging drivers. Perhaps you should consider a different distro.

In addition to that driver, another version of the one in kernel 3.18 was made
available in a GitHub repo that was created in August 2014. That one contains
all the newest versions, and was the source of the changes introduced in kernel
3.18.

I have worked very hard on getting these drivers into the kernel. Comments like
yours make me wonder if it has been worth my effort.

Larry
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Re: RTL8192ee

[Larry Finger]

On 01/27/2015 08:19 AM, Jason Plum wrote:
> Larry,
>
> I know that to some degree I am jumping this chain. That being said, please allow me to offer encouragement in the development of the rtl8192ee, rtl872ae, and the other members of the rtlwifi_new github.
>
> I have been using these myself, and keeping them in my sights as my commercial product that has to support these drivers is being developed. There are some hiccups as is to be expected, but your work is greatly appreciated. I strive to keep our product as free of vendor proprietary code as much as possible and you work with rtlwifi_new and the available integration with multiple revisions of the kernel has been a recent key to that effort.

Note that everything in rtlwifi_new will soon be in the kernel. The bulk of the 
code was moved into V3.18 with some fixes applied to V3.19. A major hunk for BT 
coexistence for the RTL8812AE, which I have never seen, is in review, but should 
be available in V3.20. If Realtek has any new drivers in development, they have 
not told me.

For the next few months, my plan is to fix bugs, prune out any extraneous code, 
and identify routines used by 2 or more of the drivers and move them into the core.

Larry