Hello there! Currently Gentoo not have support for rtl8187se chipset (MSI Wind 100, Asus Eee netbooks). Kernel-developer Greg Kroah-Hartman commited initial support for this card (http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=c8d86be38785705aca77e33933298c320a1bf2a5). I made standalone archive from git snapshot and ebuild for it. Both can be retrieved from here: ftp://ftp.gentoo.ru/pub/rtl8187se/ I formally tested this ebuild for 2.6.27-r8, but I don't have this card. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
Created attachment 188942 [details] rtl8187se-20090417.ebuild net-wireless/rtl-20090417.ebuild for latest linux git snapshot
(In reply to comment #0) > I formally tested this ebuild for 2.6.27-r8, but I don't have this card. Confirmed that this works nicely for the RTL8187 in the Asus EeePC 701SDX with Linux 2.6.30 x86 (gentoo-sources). Thanks for the ebuild!
(In reply to comment #2) > Confirmed that this works nicely for the RTL8187 in the Asus EeePC 701SDX with > Linux 2.6.30 x86 (gentoo-sources). Thanks for the ebuild! > Actually on kernels >=2.6.29 you don't need this ebuild :). This driver can be found on staging branch: [*] Networking support ---> [*] Wireless ---> [*] Wireless extensions Device drivers ---> [*] Staging drivers ---> [ ] Exclude Staging drivers from being built <M> RealTek RTL8187SE Wireless LAN NIC driver (if you know russian :) you can look to gentoo-wiki - http://ru.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/RTL8187SE) Anyway, thank you for reply :)
(In reply to comment #3) > (In reply to comment #2) > > > Confirmed that this works nicely for the RTL8187 in the Asus EeePC 701SDX with > > Linux 2.6.30 x86 (gentoo-sources). Thanks for the ebuild! > > > > Actually on kernels >=2.6.29 you don't need this ebuild :). This driver can be > found on staging branch: > > [*] Networking support ---> > [*] Wireless ---> > [*] Wireless extensions > Device drivers ---> > [*] Staging drivers ---> > [ ] Exclude Staging drivers from being built > <M> RealTek RTL8187SE Wireless LAN NIC driver > (if you know russian :) you can look to gentoo-wiki - > http://ru.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/RTL8187SE) > > Anyway, thank you for reply :) > Hi, Is there someone with the staging driver working ok? I can't do scanning. Thanks in advance and sorry for my english.
> Hi, Is there someone with the staging driver working ok? I can't do scanning. You can try kernel 2.6.31, rtl8187se has huge rewriten since I created package.
so does the new in-kernel driver work ok for people. or is this ebuild still needed...
nope, just waiting until Greg move driver from stage to main tree
