Return-path: Received: from mail-iw0-f204.google.com ([209.85.223.204]:52977 "EHLO mail-iw0-f204.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753971AbZHaSlW convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Aug 2009 14:41:22 -0400 Received: by iwn42 with SMTP id 42so1921796iwn.33 for ; Mon, 31 Aug 2009 11:41:23 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3ace41890908311132g16783b68y2d1771ce1d2780d@mail.gmail.com> References: <3ace41890908311055s5c49a25fjf69ca48024579d44@mail.gmail.com> <43e72e890908311102q2ed9e8b3q8f1f15d45a29b2f1@mail.gmail.com> <3ace41890908311132g16783b68y2d1771ce1d2780d@mail.gmail.com> From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 11:41:03 -0700 Message-ID: <43e72e890908311141k6bcf5edbl6bce2b88670fb5f8@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: rtl8187b Problem with tx level To: Hin-Tak Leung Cc: Tobias Schlemmer , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Hin-Tak Leung wrote: > On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 7:02 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Hin-Tak Leung wrote: >>> On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 9:44 PM, Tobias >>> Schlemmer wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I have some problem with my rtl8187b device. It is included in my laptop >>>> running Ubuntu linux 2.6.28. I've tested several compat-wireless releases >>>> including 2.6.30 and 2.6.31-rc7. >>> >>> Hmm, are compat-wireless versioned against kernels? >> >> The stable ones are: >> >> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Download/stable/ >> >>  Luis >> > > Thanks - it is new addition to the web-site :-), I see. Yup, and when 2.6.32-rc1 is released we'll have another compat-wireless tarball made from that as well. > Anyway, Larry > and Herton have made more changes/improvements in rtl8187 in > latest-and-greatest than 2.6.31-rc7... Thanks for the heads up, what I recommend is you edit the wireless.kernel.org wiki page for rtl8187 and put there a section of 'recommended version' and explain what kernel release you expect to work the best, and if you do recommend latest and greatest put that on the wiki. This is what we did for ath9k as ath9k changes kept coming in for ath9k through kernel releases and distributions were still on old versions of it. What I hope is eventually users will just know to check wireless.kernel.org driver page for details for their own drivers. Luis