From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752492AbZGaMcN (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Jul 2009 08:32:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751947AbZGaMcM (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Jul 2009 08:32:12 -0400 Received: from mail-fx0-f217.google.com ([209.85.220.217]:35301 "EHLO mail-fx0-f217.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751944AbZGaMcL (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Jul 2009 08:32:11 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:mime-version:content-disposition :message-id:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=GOa+viXh/q0mCx31lXkamSsubX9zRXrjxohDhO2xK2cNF/WHp+WpwBmYp8oWp9kCJ3 GlV/17DnhLqJUfWrj7xwfV1fit+d96FBdt+ldGMGJd7248fVnsaDBStqqBWsibKmD89m mOwFFIxzl7TfIJ7qAfMp8bRPWDa7NbaZArKJU= From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: RTL8192SE support status Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:31:16 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.4 (Linux/2.6.31-rc3-next-20090722-04415-ge5aa24a-dirty; KDE/4.2.4; i686; ; ) Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Greg KH MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200907311431.17043.bzolnier@gmail.com> Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, I've been getting some private mail regarding the status of RTL8192SE wireless chipset support (the chipset is used in some newer netbooks, i.e. Medion Akoya E1312) so the current situation is: * I'm not working on it and I don't know if/when the driver is coming. * Realtek has been queried about the issue two weeks ago but we haven't heard anything back yet. * rtl8192su driver present in staging area of the kernel is for RTL8192SU (USB version of the chipset) and never contained working/complete code for RTL8192SE (PCI-E version of the chipset) so there is no point in attempts of reverting some patches in hope that it will make the things magically work (it won't, please save your time). Thanks, Bart