Return-path: Received: from charlotte.tuxdriver.com ([70.61.120.58]:41314 "EHLO smtp.tuxdriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750897AbZAFUal (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jan 2009 15:30:41 -0500 Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 15:29:36 -0500 From: "John W. Linville" To: Piter PUNK Cc: Jason Self , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: Realtek wireless 8187se Message-ID: <20090106202936.GF3544@tuxdriver.com> (sfid-20090106_213049_147046_66B8EFC3) References: <9EFEF18C-02C1-4E22-B712-9E5C582E4DEB@gmail.com> <20081216140222.GA3636@tuxdriver.com> <4957202A.5010706@unitednerds.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <4957202A.5010706@unitednerds.org> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 04:43:54AM -0200, Piter PUNK wrote: > John W. Linville wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 06:41:01PM -0800, Jason Self wrote: >>> On Dec 15, 2008, at 5:26 PM, "John W. Linville" >>> wrote: >>>> I have acquired an MSI Wind equipped with this device, I have >>>> multiple variations of the vendor driver to support the hardware, and >>>> I have a datasheet the covers at least some of the hardware involved. >>>> I'm working on it... >>> Why not share your work? >> >> What I have (which is barely anything) is on the "linville" branch >> of wireless-testing... > > Hi John, > > I am using that branch on mine Positivo Mobo White (MSI Wind OEM). It > loads the rtl8180 module, the wlan0 device appears but nothing more > happens. No scans, no associations, etc. There really is nothing there to activate the device, just some infrastructure bits. > I'm really lost looking the code, and vendor code is very very different > of kernel code (at least to my eyes), isn't an easy job to "look vendor > code -> adapt code to kernel". What can I do to help? Any special > test case? Any log? Any tip to do the un-easy job? Now that we are done with the holidays, hopefully I can make some progress on this soon. Until then, there isn't much for you to do... John -- John W. Linville Linux should be at the core linville@tuxdriver.com of your literate lifestyle.