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New: 2.6.27 RTL8187b wireless driver missing card support 0bda:8198

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Quoted 29 lines · On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:29:17 -0700 (PDT) [email protected] wrote:

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11728

           Summary: 2.6.27 RTL8187b wireless driver missing card support
                    0bda:8198
           Product: Drivers
           Version: 2.5
     KernelVersion: 2.6.27
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: Linux
              Tree: Mainline
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P1
         Component: Network
        AssignedTo: [email protected]
        ReportedBy: [email protected]

Hardware Environment: Toshiba Satellite L300-110 laptop (with built-in USB wireless card RTL8187b, DEVICE ID 0bda:8198)

Problem Description:
2.6.27 Kernel cannot detect wireless card.

Problem goes out, if in rtl8187_dev.c file i add a line with this card DEVID:
{USB_DEVICE(0x0bda, 0x8198), .driver_info = DEVICE_RTL8187B}, After this done and recompiling module, card works fine(tested it for hours with WEP and without authentication)

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Quoted 35 lines · Andrew Morton

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Quoted 29 lines · On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:29:17 -0700 (PDT) [email protected] wrote:

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11728

           Summary: 2.6.27 RTL8187b wireless driver missing card support
                    0bda:8198
           Product: Drivers
           Version: 2.5
     KernelVersion: 2.6.27
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: Linux
              Tree: Mainline
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P1
         Component: Network
        AssignedTo: [email protected]
        ReportedBy: [email protected]

Hardware Environment: Toshiba Satellite L300-110 laptop (with built-in USB wireless card RTL8187b, DEVICE ID 0bda:8198)

Problem Description:
2.6.27 Kernel cannot detect wireless card.

Problem goes out, if in rtl8187_dev.c file i add a line with this card DEVID:
{USB_DEVICE(0x0bda, 0x8198), .driver_info = DEVICE_RTL8187B}, After this done and recompiling module, card works fine(tested it for hours with WEP and without authentication)

From: John W. Linville <[email protected]>
Subject: [PATCH] rtl8187: add device ID 0bda:8198

Reported by [email protected] to work here:

	http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11728
Signed-off-by John W. Linville <[email protected]>
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 drivers/net/wireless/rtl8187_dev.c |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
drivers/net/wireless/rtl8187_dev.c +1 -0
index ae21191..fb3309f 100644
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ static struct usb_device_id rtl8187_table[] __devinitdata = {
 	{USB_DEVICE(0x0bda, 0x8187), .driver_info = DEVICE_RTL8187},
 	{USB_DEVICE(0x0bda, 0x8189), .driver_info = DEVICE_RTL8187B},
 	{USB_DEVICE(0x0bda, 0x8197), .driver_info = DEVICE_RTL8187B},
+	{USB_DEVICE(0x0bda, 0x8198), .driver_info = DEVICE_RTL8187B},
 	/* Netgear */
 	{USB_DEVICE(0x0846, 0x6100), .driver_info = DEVICE_RTL8187},
 	{USB_DEVICE(0x0846, 0x6a00), .driver_info = DEVICE_RTL8187},
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Quoted 39 lines · John W. Linville
Quoted 34 lines · Andrew Morton

(switched to email. Please respond via emailed reply-to-all, not via the bugzilla web interface).

Quoted 29 lines · On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:29:17 -0700 (PDT) [email protected] wrote:

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11728

           Summary: 2.6.27 RTL8187b wireless driver missing card support
                    0bda:8198
           Product: Drivers
           Version: 2.5
     KernelVersion: 2.6.27
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: Linux
              Tree: Mainline
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P1
         Component: Network
        AssignedTo: [email protected]
        ReportedBy: [email protected]

Hardware Environment: Toshiba Satellite L300-110 laptop (with built-in USB wireless card RTL8187b, DEVICE ID 0bda:8198)

Problem Description:
2.6.27 Kernel cannot detect wireless card.

Problem goes out, if in rtl8187_dev.c file i add a line with this card DEVID:
{USB_DEVICE(0x0bda, 0x8198), .driver_info = DEVICE_RTL8187B}, After this done and recompiling module, card works fine(tested it for hours with WEP and without authentication)

From: John W. Linville <[email protected]>
Subject: [PATCH] rtl8187: add device ID 0bda:8198

Quoted 6 lines

Reported by [email protected] to work here:

	http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11728
Signed-off-by John W. Linville <[email protected]>

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