From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail4.sea5.speakeasy.net ([69.17.117.6]:46951 "EHLO mail4.sea5.speakeasy.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752735AbXFPR4A (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Jun 2007 13:56:00 -0400 Received: from dsl092-162-116.wdc2.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO m5.risacher.org) ([66.92.162.116]) (envelope-sender ) by mail4.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 16 Jun 2007 17:49:19 -0000 Received: from magnus by m5.risacher.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1HzcOj-0002jC-9g for linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 13:49:17 -0400 To: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: rtl8187b support? From: Daniel Risacher Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 13:49:17 -0400 Message-ID: <87bqff94de.fsf@m5.risacher.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Is there anyone working on rtl8187b support, or any institutional wisdom about this chip? I recently purchased a Trendnet usb wifi adapter - TEW-424UB HWv3.0. It shows up as VendorID 0x0bda and ProductID 0x8189, and when opened has a rtl8187b inside. The drivers from the git wireless-dev branch do not recognize this device. I added the 0x8189 ProductID to wireless-dev/drivers/net/wireless/mac80211/rtl818x/rtl8187_dev.c, just to see if it would work, but this caused a panic when the driver loaded. Realtek has a linux driver available at http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=24&PFid=1&Level=6&Conn=5&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false&Downloads=true (see the very bottom), which is based on Andrea Merello's code circa 2005, but this doesn't compile with recent kernels - and incidentally is painful to cross compile. (I'm building for armv4l). Any thoughts or insight on how to get this to work? --- Daniel Risacher magnus@alum.mit.edu