LAAAAAAyou know the drill.
I’ve recently started a new job, with… well, the hours suck. I know I’m lagging pretty hard, but I have been updating the rtl8187b section with patches from Mister Leung, and I have had a few emails between me and Andrea Merello, the original r8187 maintainer. Hopefully, the SF rtl-wifi project releases some stuff soon, if they haven’t already. Keep an eye out there, folks. The plan is pretty much to let the pros take over.
Speaking of sucky hours, I know I lag a lot, and I get a lot of emails, especially about WPA. (Try wpa_supplicant!#!%@$^!!!!!)
Also, I’m hearing about a lot of kernel crashes, explosions, etcetera. The version I use is compiled against Ubuntu’s 2.6.22-14-generic kernel. I don’t know what Red Hat et. al are doing differently, but you might want to try downloading the official kernel source tree — vendors have been known to do strange things to their source trees.
One last thing. If anyone knows any admins at Twitter, could you please get them off their asses to implement account undeletion already? :P
that’s really a good news :) The only thing I don’t like about my toshiba is rs690 (radeon 1200) and the rtl8197 (8187b)… support for both under linux is lacking ;/
-rs690 drm support got into kernel, meaning that soon it may work out of the box for linux distros and without the need for fglrx blob …
- and know it’s good to know that rtl8187b may also soon work out of the box … maybe even with kernel 2.6.26 … who knows ? :P
I get 3 hunks failed when I try to apply the patch with
patch rtl8187b-modified-dist.tar.gz 2.6.24.patch
Am I doing something wrong?
Thanks!
(with ubuntu 7.10 the modified driver really helped me)
you need to unpack the driver first:
tar -xzf rtl8187b-modified-dist.tar.gz
then:
mv 2.6.24.patch rtl8187b-modified/
cd rtl8187b-modified
patch -p1 <2.6.24.patch
Thanks! I had tried that too, but didn’t know the -p1 stuff.
I am running Ubuntu 8.04 and I did this to apply the patch:
tar -xzf rtl8187b-modified-dist.tar.gz
then:
mv 2.6.24.patch rtl8187b-modified/
cd rtl8187b-modified
patch -p1 <2.6.24.patch
I got this output: patch: command not found
What am I doing wrong? Patch is not on system it seems. Is there another way to apply the patch?
Thx -Ian