RTL8187B Wireless driver issues in Linux-2.6.27
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Bug Description
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://
Thanks,
Tom
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status: | Incomplete → Invalid |
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.