Hi Larry,, hi all

On Sa, 22 Dez 2012, Larry Finger wrote:

It is not that no one cares; however, your attitude does nothing to 
induce me to work on this problem. The facts are not needed "to make 

Aehm, ... after my initial report you asked me several more questions,
which I answered within a few hours. After that no as in 0 response,
although I pinged back a few times.

So am I supposed to deduce from 0 reactions that anyone is interested?

people happy", they are necessary to try to reproduce the problem. If I 
cannot make it happen here, then I cannot fix it. Also, remember that I 

Disagree. I am involved in tracking down a nasty regression in the intel 
drm driver, which the intel people can *not* reproduce, but several
other people, and after long trials and patches and converse it is 
starting to look much better.

am a volunteer. I get nothing from Realtek but starting code of varying 
quality and some sample chips. At least my versions do not crash your 

Ok, that is a problem I understand. If this is the case, that it is
a single volunteer caring for the code, then I see a real problem.
(And I also will try to stay away from rtl wlan cards on my next laptop)

I have never tested forcing a reset on the chip the way you did. I am not 
surprised that bad things happen.

But the DMAR item I also reported points to a real problem I guess.

From some of the material that you report, it appears that you have an 
802.11n connection using WPA1 encryption. (More of those pesky details!) 

WPA PSK, yes. I don't know the difference between WPA2 and WPA, though.

Best wishes, and merry christmas

Norbert
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