On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 5:12 AM, Roman Mamedov <r...@romanrm.ru> wrote: > Hello! > > Some good news: > > A fix has been recently committed to the mainline rtl8187 driver, which for me > makes it work without issue on rtl8187b device on the Yeeloong: > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=6410db593e8c1b2b79a2f18554310d6da9415584 > > Before, I had only a very low quality link when I tested the rtl8187 driver, > it almost couldn't see the access point at all. This is now solved, it now > works without any problem.
It sounds cool, thanks Roman ;-) > > Not sure about long-term stability of this driver, or if changing from > rtl8187b to rtl8187 will help fix my lock-up issue discussed in the previous > thread - will need to test that some more. > > As a nice bonus, my Yeeloong now flashes the wifi led as data is transmitted > or received -- never seen that to work on rtl8187b. the LED support is very simple in the old rtl8187b driver. By the way, does Fn+F5 work with rtl8187? I mean does rtl8187 provide the rfkill interface? > > Another difference between these drivers I spotted: rtl8187b shows Link > Quality as "90/100", whereas rtl8187 has "70/70" there. That is because there was some Loongson specific optimization in the rtl8187b driver, perhaps it's time for us to merge that part to the mainline rtl8187 and eventually throw rtl8187b away. > > Just in case I am attaching the exact patch which I just applied to 2.6.38 and > rtl8187 module in that kernel started to work fine. This patch is already > included in the mainline 2.6.38.1 release. 2.6.38.1 for Loognson may be available tomorrow. Thanks again, Wu Zhangjin > > -- > With respect, > Roman > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "loongson-dev" group. To post to this group, send email to loongson-dev@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to loongson-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/loongson-dev?hl=en.
