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From Realtek Linux wireless driver

Anybody have any experience with a Toshiba Satilite A215-S7427, which reports the Realtek 8187B as a 8197?

I have the Realtek driver source (rtl8187B_linux_24.6.1026.0823.2007) which I got from a tech support person. Had to update their 'r8187_core.c' and 'r8187_core.c' files to recognize the toshiba modified chip. It looks like this driver had at least has the MODULE_ALIAS set up, but not the structure usb_device_id in 'rtl8187_dev.c'.

The RF setup loop is failing with "phy0: RF Calibration Failed! 0". If I comment out this loop (there is a comment in the Realtek driver that there needs to be a loop/check on the calibration), it gets further, But I don't see the available networks.

Some of the syslog output from the RealTek driver:

Apr 7 19:40:14 tarkus kernel: Linux kernel driver for RTL8187/RTL8187B based WLAN cards Apr 7 19:40:14 tarkus kernel: Copyright (c) 2004-2005, Andrea Merello Apr 7 19:40:14 tarkus kernel: rtl8187: Initializing module Apr 7 19:40:14 tarkus kernel: rtl8187: Wireless extensions version 22 Apr 7 19:40:14 tarkus kernel: rtl8187: Initializing proc filesystem Apr 7 19:40:14 tarkus kernel: rtl8187: Reported EEPROM chip is a 93c46 (1Kbit) Apr 7 19:40:15 tarkus kernel: rtl8187: Card MAC address is xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx Apr 7 19:40:15 tarkus kernel: rtl8187: PAPE from CONFIG2: 0 Apr 7 19:40:15 tarkus kernel: rtl8187: Driver probe completed

I'm working on OpenSUSE 10.3 with kernel 2.6.22.17

So far this driver looks cleaner to install than the RealTek version.