On Tue, 5 Apr 2011 00:32:10 +0800 wu zhangjin <wuzhang...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Seems the performance of rtl8187 is worse than our old rtl8187b, so, > perhaps we'd better fix the old rtl8187b. Personally I have no complaints about the performance of rtl8187, it works for me at 7 meters and behind one concrete wall from an access point; the speed is about 1 megabyte per second and is stable. Do you mean performance as in worse wireless reception, or periodically losing the access point, or lower speed while transferring files? Regarding the lock-ups, rtl8187 never ever locked up since I started using it. > I have taken a look at the calltrace your reported, seems they are > related to drivers/net/wireless/rtl8187b/ieee80211/, and I have > checked the other related directories: > > drivers/staging/rtl8187se/ieee80211 > drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211 > drivers/staging/rtl8192e/ieee80211 I have thought about this earlier, and was wondering, is it really necessary for rtl8187b to ship its own version of ieee80211/ directory at all? The stock rtl8187 does not do that, instead it uses some portions of the 80211 stack already present in the kernel. Those seem to be newer and perhaps will be more problem-free. Maybe it is possible to convert the -b driver to also use them? -- With respect, Roman
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