I have made a small change (r8187b_endpoint-12.patch) on top of a patch which
Herton (rtl8187b_5.patch) sent to Axel for a new mac80211-based driver for Realtek
8187B. Herton's patch was missing one thing that the vendor driver does - the vendor
driver sends management control frames through usb endpoint 12 rather than the normal
priority-based queueing endpoints 6,7,5,4. Without the management frame change, it
seems that the new driver can scan but not associate, and my patch fixes that. My patch
is probably a bit ugly (hence I have not provided an integrated patch), but since it is
just a few lines and short enough, I am sure somebody can re-write it better.
So I *am* using the new driver *right now* connected to the internet...
The rest of the story is at:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=432280
These two patches are the same as (and Herton may have a newer/better one for his already):
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=304231
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=305203
BTW, I am not subscribed to linux-wireless, but feel free to CC me on this...
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