CFT: Realtek 8187L wireless USB driver - urtw(4)

Aleksey K. aleksey.kashin at gmail.com
Fri Nov 7 00:45:23 PST 2008


 >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...

Best regards,
Kashin Aleksey.


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