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Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2010 18:57:55 -0500
From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
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To: Rogerio Luz Coelho <rogluz.news@gmail.com>
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	Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@holoscopio.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/9] rtl8187: fix wrong register initialization in 8187B
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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