Return-path: Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net ([213.165.64.23]:38894 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1754220Ab0IRNn1 (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Sep 2010 09:43:27 -0400 From: "Stefan Lippers-Hollmann" To: "Hin-Tak Leung" Subject: Re: Realtek rtl8188 support? Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 15:43:15 +0200 Cc: Claus Ried , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Message-Id: <201009181543.18159.s.L-H@gmx.de> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi On Saturday 18 September 2010, Hin-Tak Leung wrote: > On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Claus Ried wrote: [...] > The Realtek vendor driver has always bundled its own wpa_supplicant > and I have wondered what mod they have made. Are you using your distro > wpa_supplicant or the Realtek vendor bundled one? Talking about the staging driver in kernel 2.6.35/ 2.6.36 (rtl8192su/ r8192s_usb, I didn't test rtl8712 from {linux,staging}-next yet), RTL8188S [1] and RTL8191S [2] hardware works quite well for me with stock wpasupplicant 0.6.10/ 0.7.3 (Debian/ unstable, no hardware specific patches and using the plain wext backend and no special configuration). While it takes a little to authenticate succesfully (20-30 seconds), I have not experienced any problems yet. Looking at the bundled wpa_supplicant-0.5.10.tar.gz (from rtl8192su_linux_2.6.0003.0810.2009.tar.gz shipped on the vendor's driver CD) confirms that its MD5 matches the upstream wpa_supplicant tarball: 9e7b99da67c47d81121368c6d580d069 *wpa_supplicant-0.5.10.tar.gz Regards Stefan Lippers-Hollmann [1] Longshine LCS-8131N2, 150 MBit/s 0bda:8171 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8188SU 802.11n WLAN Adapter . usb 1-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6 usb 1-3: New USB device found, idVendor=0bda, idProduct=8171 usb 1-3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 usb 1-3: Product: RTL8188S WLAN Adapter usb 1-3: Manufacturer: Manufacturer Realtek usb 1-3: SerialNumber: 00e04c000001 [2] DeLock 88530, 300 MBit/s 0bda:8172 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8191S WLAN Adapter . usb 2-6: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2 usb 2-6: New USB device found, idVendor=0bda, idProduct=8172 usb 2-6: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 usb 2-6: Product: RTL8191S WLAN Adapter usb 2-6: Manufacturer: Manufacturer Realtek usb 2-6: SerialNumber: 00e04c000001