Re: RTL 8187b - naughty behaviour

["Gábor Stefanik" <netrolller.3d@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Rogerio Luz Coelho
<rogluz.news@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2010/4/3 Rogerio Luz Coelho <rogluz.news@gmail.com>:
>> 2010/4/3 Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>:
>>> On 04/03/2010 11:49 AM, Rogerio Luz Coelho wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I have a MS-Win7 instalation on this Laptop and it works 100% even at
>>>> longer distances than you report,even with walls in between.
>>>>
>>>> Will do the tcpperf test as soon as I get home. There are other with
>>>> the same problem with my exact chip here in Brasil , that is because
>>>> one of our leading Laptop vendors uses this config.
>>>
>>> What is the exact make and model of the device? It might be difficult
>>> for me to get one in the US, but one of the rtl8187 developers lives in
>>> Brazil. He should be able to find one.
>>>
>>
>> It愀 a POSITIVO R430L - Core 2 Duo 4GB RAM
>>
>>
>>>> Does it matter that the USB port used in this setting is a connected
>>>> to a USB HUB and then to the mother board?
>>>
>>> Is the hub passive, or is it powered? If the hub is good and not
>>> underpowered, it should be OK.
>>>
>>>> More details and tests will come your way in a day or two ... will
>>>> reinstall Mandriva 2010 and do some tests with older kernels.
>>>
>>> If you can download an openSUSE 11.2 Live CD and burn it, you would not
>>> even have to do an installation. That one has a 2.6.31 kernel.
>>>
>>> Larry
>
>
> Downloaded and installed:
>
> OpenSuse 11.2 - LiveCD  result: Gnome Network-Manager tells me there
> is connection but no ping resposes, Firefox complains about conections
> errors.
>
> Mandriva 2010.0 (kernel 2.6.31-12) result: concection comes and goes
> ... generally the first boot of the day connects, but it lasts less
> than 5min. The error code is the "deauthentication by local reason
> (reason=3) again.
>
> MS-Win7 : connects and is as fast as ever.
>
> -- Any other suggestions?
>
> Rogerio
>
> PS: Will give OpenSuse a HD install atempt and will try to debug the
> Mandriva for some time, future tries involve Debian Stable (old
> kernel) and some Fedora (any suggestions?) and the NDISwrapper drive
> in a Debian Testing (the Distro I need working)

Hi,

Please also test Realtek's official r8187b driver. If possible, please
do an mmiotrace on that driver.

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