CFT: Realtek 8187L wireless USB driver - urtw(4)
Aleksey K.
aleksey.kashin at gmail.com
Fri Nov 7 00:42:51 PST 2008
>Dear all,
>This driver supports 8187L which is one of Realtek's 8187x series and
>I'm looking for testers who have this device. :-) With lack of H/W I
>can't add codes for 8187/8187B devices that AFAIK they can share a lot
>of codes and can be supported without modifying many part of codes.
>
>In my environment the basic features (WEP/WPA and etc ...) are worked
>and the driver based on USB1 (not USB2) can be found at as follows:
>
> http://people.freebsd.org/~weongyo/urtw_20081107.tar.gz
>
>I think a current problem of urtw(4) is poor RX/TX performance about
>8 ~ 10Mbps due to mishandling the rate controlling and I'm not sure it
>would easy to fix it without documents but I expect the connection would
>be stable.
>
>Please let me know if you encounter any problems or opinions. Always
>patches to improve or enhance features are welcome!
>
>regards,
>Weongyo Jeong
Hi. I have netbook MSI Wind U90X with wi-fi module - Realtek 8187SE.
You plan to write the driver for this card? I could help with driver
testing...
Best regards,
Kashin Aleksey.
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