Return-path: Received: from mail-gw0-f46.google.com ([74.125.83.46]:37494 "EHLO mail-gw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751679Ab0KCABF convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Nov 2010 20:01:05 -0400 Received: by gwj21 with SMTP id 21so28885gwj.19 for ; Tue, 02 Nov 2010 17:01:05 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4CD0A583.40105@lwfinger.net> References: <309278.75116.qm@web29520.mail.ird.yahoo.com> <4CCF7B73.7040906@lwfinger.net> <4CCF7EFC.1050000@mandriva.com.br> <4CD0A583.40105@lwfinger.net> Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 22:01:00 -0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/9] rtl8187: fix wrong register initialization in 8187B From: Rogerio Luz Coelho To: Larry Finger Cc: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski , Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 2010/11/2 Larry Finger : > On 11/02/2010 06:48 PM, Rogerio Luz Coelho wrote: >> Ok, I see the 8187b is in development. >> >> But PLEASE ask Thadeu Cascardo for his patch as it seems to fix the >> issue with these cards when connected to Laptop (Positivo Laptops in >> Brasil for instance), this would even let the Mandriva folks show >> Positivo that they don't need to ship the Mandriva 2008.0 woith their >> Linux Laptops anymore ... >> >> the patch he sent me FIXED the problem where the chip did not connect >> or when it did it would lose the connection right away... >> >> see >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/215802?comments=all >> >> >> I haven?t aplied any other patches and the one he sent me JUST WORKS, >> tested in a Ubuntu 10.04 64bit (64bit being important since the >> Realtek support told me they did NOT support 64bit with their linux >> drivers) > > Realtek does not support 64-bit systems with most of their drivers, but we do. > In fact, I only do development on x86_64 and then test on i386. > > Obviously, there is something special about the Toshiba/Brazil devices. The > patch that you need to make a cdonnection had absolutely no effect on mine. > > Larry > No effect is better than "regression" right? I am not saying the chip got magically better, it still seems a cheap POS, but with Cascardo's patch is as good as the Win7 driver here. Rogerio