Return-path: Received: from mail-gx0-f16.google.com ([209.85.217.16]:60887 "EHLO mail-gx0-f16.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751697AbYJDIrn (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Oct 2008 04:47:43 -0400 Received: by gxk9 with SMTP id 9so3513115gxk.13 for ; Sat, 04 Oct 2008 01:47:42 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <43e72e890810040147j6f15966awbe555b6d37135960@mail.gmail.com> (sfid-20081004_104748_321327_9FE5E33E) Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2008 01:47:42 -0700 From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" To: "Johannes Berg" Subject: Re: Trendnet TEW-424UB now Realtek 8187B Cc: keithl@keithl.com, linux-wireless , "Daniel Drake" In-Reply-To: <1223109126.24551.70.camel@johannes.berg> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 References: <20081004011510.GA10015@gate.kl-ic.com> <1223109126.24551.70.camel@johannes.berg> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 1:32 AM, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 18:15 -0700, Keith Lofstrom wrote: >> I also hope that someone will make a version of the Realtek driver >> that works properly with Network Manager, and backport it to the >> 2.6.24 (Ubuntu 8.04 and others) kernel. Who should I encourage? > > Uh, that's unlikely to happen, unless compat-old (see the Download page > on the wiki) works on that kernel. What Realtek driver? Just FYI rtl8187 does *not* claim the RTL8187B. See: http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/rtl8187 Luis