RTL8187B Wireless driver issues in Linux-2.6.27

[Tomdbike]

Hello,
There is a bug in the RTL8187B driver in the kernel 2.6.27. My wireless card is Realtek RTL8187B (ID:8197).

I can only get speeds of up to 100kib/s. (I'm on a 8MB/s line and I can easily get 1MB/s with another wireless card).

Also with this driver I experienced very short operating range. It seems that the driver always attempts to achieve the highest bit rate even when errors are occurring, which results in awful quality and sometimes all connections will timeout.
There is a solution to this problem but not the best. By running this command, it will make the errors "disappear".

iwconfig wlan0 rate 5.5M fixed

This seems to fix the problem.
I made a thread on Ubuntuforums about this: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=792092

Thanks,
Tom

[Mário Pinto (m+p)]

Hi.
The same happens to me.
When using the kernel driver.
I tested in the same machine with the usb pen of the router a D-link adapter, and it works fine.
So the problem is comming from the wireless.

I havend had this problem when i was using the previous kernel, i think it was the 2.6.29 using the rtl8187b patches and drivers from http://www.datanorth.net/~cuervo/blog/rtl8187b-drivers-and-patches/ i had a shell script running it, and it had some bugs in detecting networks, but it worked.

The strange thing is that, the first time i upgraded to 8.10, it seamed ok, only a few hours later this started to happen.

Thanks for your time.

[Andy Whitcroft (apw)]

This is not a bug in the linux-meta package, moving to the linux package.

[^_Pepe_^ (jose-angel-fernandez-freire)]

Hi,

This bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in
it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue? Can you try
with the latest Karmic 9.10 release of Ubuntu? ISO CD images are
available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/ .

If the issue remains, could you run the following command from a
Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal) while running Karmic. It
will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this
report.

apport-collect -p linux 311919

[Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee)]

This bug report was marked as Incomplete and has not had any updated comments for quite some time. As a result this bug is being closed. Please reopen if this is still an issue in the current Ubuntu release http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download . Also, please be sure to provide any requested information that may have been missing. To reopen the bug, click on the current status under the Status column and change the status back to "New". Thanks.

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