Return-path: Received: from liberdade2.minaslivre.org ([74.50.53.203]:36753 "EHLO liberdade.minaslivre.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757714Ab0HKAbt (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Aug 2010 20:31:49 -0400 Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 21:23:55 -0300 From: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo To: Rogerio Luz Coelho Cc: Larry Finger , =?utf-8?B?R8OhYm9y?= Stefanik , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski Subject: Re: RTL 8187b - naughty behaviour Message-ID: <20100811002355.GB5874@barata.holoscopio.com> References: <4BB773A9.2070703@lwfinger.net> <1275579654.1311.32.camel@casa> <4C5F5D5C.9040709@lwfinger.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="MW5yreqqjyrRcusr" In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --MW5yreqqjyrRcusr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 09:03:46PM -0300, Rogerio Luz Coelho wrote: > lem > 2010/8/8 Larry Finger : > > On 08/08/2010 05:22 PM, Rogerio Luz Coelho wrote: > >> SNIP ... > >> > >> So no luck with the Realtek driver yet? > > > > We are not doing anything with the Realtek driver. My RTL8187B device w= orks > > perfectly fine. > > > > If you were to study a vendor driver and come up with some patches to r= tl8187 > > that made your device function better, then I would consider them, but = at this > > point, I am not looking at any changes to rtl8187. > > > > Larry > > >=20 > Ok, but have you seen the amount of people on the Ubuntu bug list with > the same problem? >=20 > I am just saying it seems it is quite widespread problem, not just my cas= e ... >=20 > I tried to post all information asked, I have no idea even if I did > the mmio trace right since I had no response. >=20 Hello, folks. I've been working for some two weeks observing the behaviour of rtl8187B. Thanks to someone's report (I think it was Rogerio's), I found the realtek driver. It does seem to work a little better regarding transmission. I have taken a look at the driver (it's GPLed) and done some experiments, but couldn't find any particular difference that magically make it work yet. I think the mmiotrace is not exactly what you want. Since these are USB devices, usbmon dumps are much more readable and useful. I've made some of my own, but still need to write some scripts to translate them to something I can read and compare more easily. As soon as I get some patches that work for me and are field tested for these particular device versions, I will send them to the list for review and testing with other device versions. Larry, you mentioned in one of your messages about the specs. Are they under an NDA or could you provide or ask for a copy? At a glance, the realtek driver seems to do some dynamic power gain control. I will try this as one of my next steps. Regards, Cascardo. > :) >=20 > Hey, I am not trolling here, it=C2=B4s just I thought you guys would > **magically** find the issue after my post (hey wishfull thinking is > STILL thinking right?) >=20 > Rogerio > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless"= in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html --MW5yreqqjyrRcusr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJMYe2aAAoJEEWxSg7udFZIUCcP/202Dusn07LpFz+BXwOQDdMr 2Ueg6kJZx9WV/hWsWPo/oTWJRgrQj7QaVM1qPmNhZXFRsD53SP7eyEnGpIL07NeN /Q3yfHuJS5SDfTPRhpklipf76tri+WAIHAhx8q4znO9RTcC8qgIBhu47qAoCvjMr IAIzVsJ9NxB9Op9Kqr76wOn7YNJn5UsZLr90l8VFWZpjMXctoJNsiQN67+xNfTUG A6wI1mzWW6WJGpHBTfVAqWfCY6rpliiXL+2C4/yZ58EN3ozn506C8w3cmiHY5noc 1ucRzi4N8yXt0yPzwZEBmKVFeE1gWV9Bkj/OMgTxUmnCjMm899PkCBSn+yVMhSJP 8AzDzmNtFjcgih+rRTkLg4fHPLyM1a+c+uoTpiHpBIgKsGcu16Lg6n6N4ecWQ+4E JCWYTJEAN0XsPya3wM5pUmQKfLq+PdJIQSVH3zfhPTl69dHeLDcJ2vM9pyr2X+e4 SdhYRywz59UvdZX+/9bX55RbUB1v++M2+Uf/F/ZRmgpshlrcirf5XqZwYtUl4G8m Ew9s30NH5iAMz69Xf6nRFcImOVo5mUonQB1GW9s+4VlObRXh5z0CVvywbyrIg95V H7Vy7FBSBDEYqvL/j1F2NAWaF5WnEpgIx9QbT/Tum/O1Q5hcPQXljCD55T6W3VM9 xMLkZVuwV+JePNmYKRhj =Esvf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --MW5yreqqjyrRcusr--