Comment 7 for bug 254438

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mdshort (mdshort) wrote : Re: realtek RTL8187B wireless card does not work on toshiba satellite A210-15J

In my desperate attempt to get WPA support for my RTL8187B device, I have updated to 8.10 (which features the new 2.6.27 kernel). However, I regret to inform you that support for the device is extremely slow and unreliable. So unreliable in fact, that I was forced to switch back to the older 2.6.24 kernel featured in 8.04.

I have been able to install the driver hosted at http://www.datanorth.net/~cuervo/rtl8187b/ with very basic WEP only support. So basic in fact, that signal strength is incorrectly reported as very low (when it should be 100%). This bug is very much still present in the 2.6.27 kernel. I am still searching for solutions to this problem.