Fantastic news! The upcoming Linux kernel (2.6.27) will provide support for the RTL8187B (Realtek) chipset for wireless USB adapters. This is the chipset in my adapter, so I'm thrilled. Many people have tried to make these adapters work with the native Linux drivers. Info can be found here: http://www.datanorth.net/~cuervo/rtl8187b/ http://www.a110wiki.de/wiki/Wireless There are two different USB IDs associated with this chipset (0bda:8187 and 0bda:8189), and they will both be supported. I accidentally discovered this information from browsing the commit history in the Linux git sources. All of the patches relating to RTL8187B were committed in July (so far)! Here are links to a bunch of the patches (mostly for my reference, but others might be interested in looking at the patches too): http://tinyurl.com/68ayq7 http://tinyurl.com/5w4au9 http://tinyurl.com/5oube6 http://tinyurl.com/6fxkls http://tinyurl.com/6k8sp3 http://tinyurl.com/6hgmp4 http://tinyurl.com/5jr3r9 http://tinyurl.com/67nesc Long live GNU/Linux!!
02 August 2008
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Fantastic news! The upcoming Windows 7 kernel (will.suck.ass)will provide support for most USB wireless chipsets, but they won't actually work. So,I'm pissed off because my Microsoft stock will decrease in value. FUCK
I think its time for UBUNTU.
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