Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 23 Dec 2012 07:55:43 +0900 | From | Norbert Preining <> | Subject | Re: dire state of rtl8192se driver in 3.7 |
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Hi Larry,, hi all
On Sa, 22 Dez 2012, Larry Finger wrote: > It is not that no one cares; however, your attitude does nothing to > induce me to work on this problem. The facts are not needed "to make
Aehm, ... after my initial report you asked me several more questions, which I answered within a few hours. After that no as in 0 response, although I pinged back a few times.
So am I supposed to deduce from 0 reactions that anyone is interested?
> people happy", they are necessary to try to reproduce the problem. If I > cannot make it happen here, then I cannot fix it. Also, remember that I
Disagree. I am involved in tracking down a nasty regression in the intel drm driver, which the intel people can *not* reproduce, but several other people, and after long trials and patches and converse it is starting to look much better.
> am a volunteer. I get nothing from Realtek but starting code of varying > quality and some sample chips. At least my versions do not crash your
Ok, that is a problem I understand. If this is the case, that it is a single volunteer caring for the code, then I see a real problem. (And I also will try to stay away from rtl wlan cards on my next laptop)
> I have never tested forcing a reset on the chip the way you did. I am not > surprised that bad things happen.
But the DMAR item I also reported points to a real problem I guess.
> From some of the material that you report, it appears that you have an > 802.11n connection using WPA1 encryption. (More of those pesky details!)
WPA PSK, yes. I don't know the difference between WPA2 and WPA, though.
Best wishes, and merry christmas
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