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| gertvv (gertvv) wrote Re: realtek RTL8187B wireless card does not work on toshiba satellite A210-15J | #10 |
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I use a rtl8187b card (the usb netgear wg111v3) under ubuntu 8.10 (32-bit) with the native driver and can confirm that it has _many_ issues.
Under light use (IM, web browsing, ssh) it is slow, may 'hang' for a couple of seconds and after several minutes or hours it can freeze up completely. Under heavy use it is very unreliable, making DNS lookups impossible for several minutes on end (some apparently less sensitive services may still work) and usually freezing in under half an hour.
If the driver freezes, it may be possible to remove it (modprobe -r), and reload it, after a session restart it may work again. However more often a system restart or even physical disconnect of the device is required.