Comment 4 for bug 455354

agreed enedene, and thats really frustrating. Im using backtrack 4 pre final because of that and im hating the fact that this distro does not have an up to date repository like karmic 9.10 does and i really want to use the latest kde in kubuntu 9.10 and because i connect to the internet primarily thru wlan using a nearby hotspot, makes this the only reason i cant use 9.10. They really need to do something about this driver. The way i see it the guys at aircrack-ng should make a patch for the driver i posted since it seems to compile in karmic 9.10 just like how they made a patch for r8187 version. I posted on their forums but no one has responded yet. So i emailed realtek again asking them to make a driver for 9.10 but i havent heard back from them yet. They will probably tell me to use the same driver they sent me which i have posted above. I still think something can be done but we need support to make that happen.

I suggest you do the same email realtek at jasonchang(at)realtek.com and explain to them carefully what the problem is, these guy will probably test their driver and see that it works and be done with that, but they dont realize that it has issues when the AP is far and something needs to be done about that. So try to explain to them very carefully that this is the problem and that we want a driver which is patched to work with these issues and that its compatible with ubuntu/kubuntu 9.10's networkmanager. The r8187 driver is NOT compatible with networkmanager and you have to use wicd which itself is not fully detecting the driver, still need to manually connect using shell. So there are many issues with r8187 driver aswell. We need a complete fix and its sad that such a popular card and a popular chip rtl8187L does not have a fully functional driver for linux and we have to use handicapped drivers which still need primitive shell commands for connecting. Imagine this, just to scan, i have to run airodump-ng so that i can see what the real range is, wicd doesnt even do that for me since it only scans but range is 0% unless im connected to a network and even after that its not really accurate.

So please, we need our voices to be heard, i doubt if ubuntu can do anything about our issue, its realtek who needs to make a new driver/patch fully working with karmic 9.10. Realtek or guys at aircrack-ng, suggest you also request in this forum: http://forum.aircrack-ng.org/index.php?topic=5755.195