On Sat, Apr 04, 2009 at 02:29:58AM +0800, Zhang Le wrote: > On 19:50 Fri 03 Apr , Robert Millan wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 10:59:17PM +0800, yanhua wrote: > > > > > > Robert Millan 写道: > > >> On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 09:19:19PM +0800, fxzhang wrote: > > >> > > >>> Have you tried the version of > > >>> http://dev.lemote.com/drupal/sites/default/files/rtl8187B_linux_26.1051.0116.2009_driver.tar.bz2 > > >>> > > >>> with a matching network manager, it is almost faultless now. > > >>> > > >> > > >> I think Graziano tried it, but for a working solution I need the source > > >> code. > > >> We don't publish sourceless binaries in gNewSense :-) > > >> > > >> > > >>> Yanhua: you can arrange to post the source software. > > >>> > > >> > > >> Great, thanks. Can this code be merged into your linux_loongson git > > >> tree? > > >> > > >> It would be much easier to handle than a separate build system. > > >> > > > Have you got the source code now? > > > > A few times :-) > > > > > The 8187b driver is somewhat imcompatible with current linux kernel. It > > > heavily modified the ieee80211 stack, which is deprecated by the current > > > linux implementaion. So we think merging it in the kernel tree is not > > > proper. > > > > Is resyncing with recent ieee80211 stack out of the question? > > IMHO, in the long run migrating the code to the new framework is the right > thing > to do. > > Otherwise, we would be stuck with an old linux kernel, or the code would just > die > and we can't benefit from it any more.
What's wrong with the new version of the driver anyway? Perhaps it's just a matter of adjusting a register. I'm afraid I'm no expert in this area... -- Robert Millan Got Mono? Buy Some Peace of Mind™ - http://tinyurl.com/dc6nud _______________________________________________ gNewSense-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-dev
