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From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
To: Hin-Tak Leung <hintak.leung@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] rtl8187: Adding Realtek rtl8187B support
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Quoting Hin-Tak Leung <hintak.leung@gmail.com>:

> On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 8:02 PM, John W. Linville   
> <linville@tuxdriver.com> wrote:
> <snipped>
>> It looks better, although FWIW I was able to fix-up the 2nd round by
>> hand without much problems. :-)
>
> Wow, you have already committed to wireless-testing... that means it
> will be on fedora 9 soon :-).

I've tested the latest wireless-testing.  It's working with both  
rtl8187 and 8187b, which is great!

The time of bringing the interface up are significant in both cases:  
7.5 seconds for rtl8187 and 15 seconds for rtl8187b.

I was able to connect to a WPA2 enabled AP with both devices.   
Unfortunately, I've seen the same problem with both devices.  If  
wpa_supplicant is running, there is a 50% probability that it would  
fail to connect initially, and all further scans will come empty.   
I've seen a similar problem with a PCI based rtl8185, although it was  
less likely.

Anyway, both rtl8187 and rtl8187b are working equally well, except  
that the startup time is twice as long for rtl8187b.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin