From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 8 10:43:28 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE94F106568B for ; Sat, 8 Nov 2008 10:43:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-current@dino.sk) Received: from loki.netlab.sk (loki.netlab.sk [84.245.65.11]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F2098FC12 for ; Sat, 8 Nov 2008 10:43:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-current@dino.sk) Received: from via.dino.sk (home.dino.sk [84.245.95.252]) (AUTH: PLAIN milan, TLS: TLSv1/SSLv3,256bits,AES256-SHA) by loki.netlab.sk with esmtp; Sat, 08 Nov 2008 11:42:44 +0100 id 0002E00F.49156D24.0000B609 From: Milan Obuch To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2008 11:43:13 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <4913FF64.5090500@gmail.com> <20081107101432.GB23784@freebsd.weongyo.org> In-Reply-To: <20081107101432.GB23784@freebsd.weongyo.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200811081143.14147.freebsd-current@dino.sk> Cc: "Aleksey K." , Weongyo Jeong Subject: Re: CFT: Realtek 8187L wireless USB driver - urtw(4) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2008 10:43:28 -0000 On Friday 07 November 2008 11:14:32 Weongyo Jeong wrote: > On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 01:42:12PM +0500, Aleksey K. wrote: > > >Dear all, > > > > > >This driver supports 8187L which is one of Realtek's 8187x series and > > >I'm looking for testers who have this device. :-) With lack of H/W I > > >can't add codes for 8187/8187B devices that AFAIK they can share a lot > > >of codes and can be supported without modifying many part of codes. > > > > > >In my environment the basic features (WEP/WPA and etc ...) are worked > > >and the driver based on USB1 (not USB2) can be found at as follows: > > > > > > http://people.freebsd.org/~weongyo/urtw_20081107.tar.gz > > > > > >I think a current problem of urtw(4) is poor RX/TX performance about > > >8 ~ 10Mbps due to mishandling the rate controlling and I'm not sure it > > >would easy to fix it without documents but I expect the connection would > > >be stable. > > > > > >Please let me know if you encounter any problems or opinions. Always > > >patches to improve or enhance features are welcome! > > > > > >regards, > > >Weongyo Jeong > > > > Hi. I have netbook MSI Wind U90X with wi-fi module - Realtek 8187SE. > > You plan to write the driver for this card? I could help with driver > > testing... > > Maybe no due to no available H/W. I don't have laptop having Mini-PCI > express slot that AFAIK 8187SE is Mini-PCI express. > > regards, > Weongyo Jeong > There is linux driver to be found at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-meta/+bug/246141 but I did not found other informations available for 8187SE. So if there is someone who nows how to use linux driver... Regards, Milan