Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 12:45:56 +0800 From: Kevin Lo <kevlo@kevlo.org> To: Weongyo Jeong <weongyo.jeong@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD CURRENT Mailing List <current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: CFT: Realtek 8187L wireless USB driver - urtw(4) Message-ID: <1227761156.6443.8.camel@nsl> In-Reply-To: <20081107052937.GA19400@freebsd.weongyo.org> References: <20081107052937.GA19400@freebsd.weongyo.org>
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Weongyo Jeong wrote: > Dear all, Hi Weongyo, > 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! I purchased a Safehome WLG-1500SMA5 for testing, urtw(4) for me, thanks! > dmesg | grep urtw0 urtw0: <vendor 0x0bda RTL8187_Wireless, class 0/0, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 2> on uhub4 urtw0: WARNING: using obsoleted IFF_NEEDSGIANT flag urtw0: WARNING: rx buffer is smaller than 2500 > ifconfig urtw0: flags=108843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,NEEDSGIANT> metric 0 mtu 2290 ether 00:40:0c:04:3b:2a media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g status: associated wlan0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500 ether 00:40:0c:04:3b:2a inet 192.168.1.116 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g status: associated ssid MSI channel 8 (2447 Mhz 11g) bssid 00:11:09:0c:32:81 country US authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpower 0 bmiss 7 scanvalid 60 bgscan bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi 7 roam:rate 5 protmode CTS > regards, > Weongyo Jeong Kevin
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