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

Milan Obuch freebsd-current at dino.sk
Sat Nov 8 02:43:28 PST 2008


On Friday 07 November 2008 11:14:32 Weongyo Jeong wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 01:42:12PM +0500, Aleksey K. wrote:
> > >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...
>
> Maybe no due to no available H/W.  I don't have laptop having Mini-PCI
> express slot that AFAIK 8187SE is Mini-PCI express.
>
> regards,
> Weongyo Jeong
>

There is linux driver to be found at 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-meta/+bug/246141
but I did not found other informations available for 8187SE.
So if there is someone who nows how to use linux driver...

Regards,
Milan


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