Return-path: Received: from mail-yx0-f174.google.com ([209.85.213.174]:55082 "EHLO mail-yx0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933526Ab2FASAs (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Jun 2012 14:00:48 -0400 Received: by yenm10 with SMTP id m10so1995879yen.19 for ; Fri, 01 Jun 2012 11:00:47 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4FC9034C.803@lwfinger.net> (sfid-20120601_200052_764605_73AA46A8) Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2012 13:00:44 -0500 From: Larry Finger MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jacopo Runchi , wireless Subject: Re: R: I: RTL8187 driver in linux 3.4 References: <4FC8E733.6030905@lwfinger.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 06/01/2012 11:45 AM, Jacopo Runchi wrote: > Hi, thanks for your answer. >> From what I was able to understand, the old driver uses the ieee8011 stack, > and the new uses the mac80211. > Since I'm neither a newbie, nor an expert, I don't know if the sentence has > a real meaning... > > The try about the rate has already been tested. No changes locking it. Same > results with the automatic rate, with rate 1 mbps and with 54 mbps... > Maybe I can send you the device id in lsusb, this evening or during the next > days, since now I flashed the old 2.4 release and I need to reflash the > device with the new kernel. > > For what concern the "PID rate-setting algorithm" setting "CONFIG_EXPERT=y" > I don't know anything... > I'm going to search for it on the net and I will try it too. Is lsusb not available in the 2.4 system? DO NOT DROP the wireless list from the Cc. Doing so converts the exchange back to a private one, and I will ignore further messages if you do that. It is also better if you bottom post. That way a reader can go through the background material. The 2.4 driver used its own built-in softmac 802.11 stack. Mac80211 is a replacement for it. Although mac80211 has a great deal more functionality, they generally do the same things. Larry