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Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:53:22 +0200 From: Radu Potop <wooptoo@...il.com> To: netdev@...r.kernel.org CC: "John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com> Subject: Re: rtl8180 driver in master/ad-hoc mode I contacted Markus Gothe from rtl-wifi and he was interested in updating the driver/providing patches. It would be nice to collaborate with him on this one. I'll keep you updated if he posts anything on the rtl-wifi mailing list. -Radu On 02/12/2010 05:08 PM, John W. Linville wrote: > On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 04:53:00PM +0200, Radu Potop wrote: > >> I noticed that the rtl8180 (Realtek wireless PCI adapter) driver for >> Linux doesn't support master or ad-hoc mode. However the rtl-wifi driver >> from http://rtl-wifi.sourceforge.net does support these modes. >> After a bit of investigation, I found out that the driver from the >> kernel is not maintained by its original author anymore (no changes since >> 2007), while rtl-wifi development is active. > > A bit too little investigation, it seems. The rtl8180 driver doesn't > get lots of attention, but it has been hit several times since 2007. > As for master and ad-hoc modes, I've recently taken interest there > and expect to be adding patches shortly. > >> My question is if rtl-wifi will make it into the kernel? rtl-wifi is >> actually a fork of the old driver, but with a lot of added functionality. >> I'm sure that a lot of folks would like to use their hardware to its full >> potential. > > No it will not. For one, svn indicates rtl-wifi is nowhere near as > active as you indicate: > > /home/linville/svn/rtl-wifi > [linville-t400.local]:> svn log > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > r83 | falmouth | 2008-07-09 08:52:33 -0400 (Wed, 09 Jul 2008) | 1 line > > our CCMP, TKIP and WEP modules names end in -rtl > > Beyond that, no one from there is posting any patches and in any case > it is rather rare to simply drop one more-or-less working driver in > favor of another one simply because it appears from nowhere. > > Anyway, as I indicated I have been taking more interest in rtl8180 > lately and I expect it to be greatly improved at least in time for > 2.6.35 (since the 2.6.34 development cycle will be ending soon). > > Hth! > > John -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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