On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 16:46 +0200, Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote: > Hi > > On Saturday 15 May 2010, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 08:56 +0200, Miguel J.Jiménez wrote: > > > > The firmware seems to have uploaded correctly to the device. > > > > > > My mistake... that was 68533bf8078a9e00966a78c9f2da4b9b firmware and > > > not the one provided with the deb package. > > [...] > > > > OK, I've found this file - not on the Realtek site but on a random > > file-sharing site! Since I've now collected quite a few Realtek driver > > packages which aren't easily available, I've uploaded all those that are > > redistributable to <http://people.debian.org/~benh/rtl-wlan/>. > > > > Stefan, please download > > <http://people.debian.org/~benh/rtl-wlan/rtl8192su_linux_2.6.0002.0708.2009.tar.gz> and check whether the firmware blob in there (which should be the same one Miguel has used) works for you as well. > > 68533bf8078a9e00966a78c9f2da4b9b */lib/firmware/RTL8192SU/rtl8192sfw.bin > > Does work for me as well: Great, I'll include this in the next upload. [...] > It is slightly slower though, ~5130 KB/s (a5ad703551efb108ba012b4b8a830d93) > compared to 4970 KB/s (68533bf8078a9e00966a78c9f2da4b9b) for a 65 MB kernel > tarball served by vsftpd from a local server (access point using Atheros > AR9100 MAC/BB Rev:0 AR2133 RF Rev:a2 with ath9k, local server connected via > GBit/s ethernet). I don't think that's a statistically significant difference. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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