Hi, RM I have used it yesterday, it works perfectly and I have fixed the rfkill & led problem, the fixup is available in 2.6.38.1 for Loongson in the linux-loongson-community project.
The old rtl8187b doesn't work with some security algorithms and I'm too busy to continue its maintaining and mainline rtl8187 works well now(although the performance may be worse than rtl8187b we used), So, from 2.6.38.1, I will throw it away and enable rtl8187 by default. For the performance problem of the mainline rtl8187, If time allows, we may be able to port the optimization from rtl8187b for it. Thanks again for your report of the rtl8187 status ;-) Regards, Wu Zhangjin On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 3:29 AM, Roman Mamedov <r...@romanrm.ru> wrote: > On Sat, 26 Mar 2011 03:20:52 +0800 > wu zhangjin <wuzhang...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > 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. > > By the way it did NOT produce any lock-ups for me for yesterday and today, and > I even switched my network to previously more problematic WPA2 AES. It looks > like my lock-up problem is specific to rtl8187b and not present with rtl8187. > >> By the way, does Fn+F5 work with rtl8187? I mean does rtl8187 provide the >> rfkill interface? > > Yes, this is the downside I discovered today. rtl8187 at this moment can't > seem to unblock the "hardware" rfkill via the software interface, i.e. after > running "rfkill unblock wifi", it will only become: > > # rfkill list wifi > 0: phy0: Wireless LAN > Soft blocked: no > Hard blocked: yes > > But manually pressing Fn+F5 key unblocks it successfully. The rtl8187b did not > require manual Fn+F5 at this point, so perhaps the rfkill-handling part could > be ported over from that source into the mainline driver. > >> > 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. > > I hope more people who use Yeeloong with WiFi could test the new rtl8187 and > check if it works fine for them. > > -- > 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.
