help with status of realtek wifi driver?
Hi, 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)
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? Regards, -mandeep
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Quoting Mandeep Sandhu <mandeepsandhu.chd@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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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.
We faced issues (frequent disconnects) with this driver in the 64-bit version of ubuntu. Switching to 32-bit helped and the disconnect issue has become very rare. Another friend of mine was using the 'linux-backporst-modules' package (from apt) to work-around this issue...but that too broke after an update (then he had to remove this package). HTH, -mandeep
Dave
Regards, -mandeep
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On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 08:36:51PM -0800, Dave Stevens wrote:
Hi,
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.
Just look at the code in the kernel tree and see: git log drivers/staging/rtl8192e/
lspci -nn shows:
05:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8192E Wireless LAN Controller [10ec:8192] (rev 01)
Then email those people and ask. Try reporting bugs to your distro as well, they should be the ones to handle them unless you are using a kernel.org built kernel. good luck, greg k-h
Quoting Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>:
On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 08:36:51PM -0800, Dave Stevens wrote:
Hi,
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.
Just look at the code in the kernel tree and see: git log drivers/staging/rtl8192e/
lspci -nn shows:
05:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8192E Wireless LAN Controller [10ec:8192] (rev 01)
Then email those people and ask. Try reporting bugs to your distro as well, they should be the ones to handle them unless you are using a kernel.org built kernel.
good luck,
greg k-h
ok, I'll follow up as you suggest, thanks very much. Dave
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On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 4:36 AM, Dave Stevens <geek@uniserve.com> wrote:
Hi,
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)
These type of questions perhaps belong to distro mailing list and not here.
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