help with status of realtek wifi driver?

[Dave Stevens]

Quoting Mandeep Sandhu <mandeepsandhu.chd at gmail.com>:

>> My Samsung N220 has a RTL8192E wifi chip. The windows 7 driver  
>> works fine, but
>> I think the Linux driver is in staging. Does anyone know how to find out if
>> there is work being done on this driver or who is doing it? Flaky in Ubuntu.
>>
>>
>> lspci -nn shows:
>>
>>  05:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.  
>>  RTL8192E
>>  Wireless LAN Controller [10ec:8192] (rev 01)
>
> I have Ubuntu 10.10 (32-bit) running on my Toshiba laptop which has a
> "similar" wlan card which works fine with the stock driver that comes
> with Ubuntu:
>
> lspci -nn | grep 819
> 02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
> RTL8191SEvB Wireless LAN Controller [10ec:8172] (rev 10)
>
> lsmod | grep 819
> r8192se_pci           469517  0
> cfg80211              144470  1 r8192se_pci
>
> The module is actually showing 8192 so I guess it controls both the
> wlan chipsets.
>
> We did, however, experience a lot of issues with the same driver on
> the 64-bit version of Ubuntu 10.10.
>
> What Ubuntu version are you trying?

10.10. The really irritating part is that at install time everything  
worked fine but stopped being reliable after some updates.

Dave

>
> Regards,
> -mandeep
>
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