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   <H1>[Mageia-dev] kernel-3.3.3 and wifi problems</H1>
    <B>Simple W</B> 
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<PRE>2012/5/1 Thomas Backlund &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">tmb at mageia.org</A>&gt;:
&gt;<i> 01.05.2012 23:38, simple w8 skrev:
</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> I have been discussing this with Larry Finger (one of the realtek main
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> developers) in &quot;wireless &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">linux-wireless at vger.kernel.org</A>&gt;&quot; ML and this
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> Larry Finger what he said:
</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> &quot;That patch keeps your device from running forever at a maximum of 1
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> Mbps by adjusting the initial gain of the RX amplifier. You may
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> reverse it if you want so that you can detect more APs when you scan;
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> however, most people prefer to get better performance from the device.
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> That patch will not be reversed.&quot;
</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;<i> Yeah, I saw that.
</I>&gt;<i> did the module options disabling powersaving help at all ?
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;<i> --
</I>&gt;<i> Thomas
</I>
I think its better when packaging a new kernel release to patch
rtl8192 module to undo the so called &quot;fix&quot;
<A HREF="http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git;a=commit;h=eb641120479de7ee703fabb5e6ee0ec7947474ba">http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git;a=commit;h=eb641120479de7ee703fabb5e6ee0ec7947474ba</A>

Thomas, as you can see, from the severall mails i sent to compat
wireless mailing list, this &quot;fix&quot; as proven not to be an improvement
at all, it starts to detect less wifi networks and it reaches the
point of detecting none wifi network (as described in a message sent
to compat-wireless ML), where in another machine i have here running
Windows (also with a Realtek wifi card) it detects (and continues
detecting) 6 wifi networks.

With all the tests i made running both kernels releases its clear that
continues being preferable to run without that &quot;fix&quot;.
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