[Bug 293946] Re: realtek rtl8187 weak signal, occasional slow performance

2010-10-02 Thread Rogerio Luz Coelho
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 567016 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/567016 ** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 215802 rtl8187 link quality poor ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 567016 Wireless won't work on Lenovo Thinkpad T510 * You can subscribe to bug

[Bug 293946] Re: realtek rtl8187 weak signal, occasional slow performance

2010-08-26 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 215802 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/215802 Also having this problem, with a Alfa 54G USB stick on Ubuntu 10.04 (Karmic) Bus 001 Device 005: ID 0bda:8187 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8187 Wireless Adapter -- realtek rtl8187 weak signal, occasional

[Bug 293946] Re: realtek rtl8187 weak signal, occasional slow performance

2010-03-15 Thread Brian Pitts
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 215802 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/215802 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 215802 rtl8187 link quality poor -- realtek rtl8187 weak signal, occasional slow performance https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/293946 You received this bug

[Bug 293946] Re: realtek rtl8187 weak signal, occasional slow performance

2010-02-19 Thread Faris Monawer al-Rasheedi
the problem not solved -- realtek rtl8187 weak signal, occasional slow performance https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/293946 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 293946] Re: realtek rtl8187 weak signal, occasional slow performance

2010-01-07 Thread promicin
here is a new driver for rtl8187L that compiles without errors in ubuntu 9.10, but it doesnt seem to be fully operational so maybe a patch could fix this. http://www.4shared.com/file/188631523/a725eefa/rtl8187L_linux_26103901042010r.html -- realtek rtl8187 weak signal, occasional slow

[Bug 293946] Re: realtek rtl8187 weak signal, occasional slow performance

2010-01-04 Thread Antonio J. de Oliveira
I don't know if this is relevant, but as told before my adapter runs ok. However I am using it on 64-bit karmic with wep 128-bit hex and fixed ip. Hope it helps. -- realtek rtl8187 weak signal, occasional slow performance https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/293946 You received this bug notification

[Bug 293946] Re: realtek rtl8187 weak signal, occasional slow performance

2010-01-03 Thread Nick Howden
Also running freshly installed, updated Karmic on Ei-System 1211 Laptop and have same problems with RTL8187B wifi card. Have updated bug 215802 with apport details from affected laptop -- realtek rtl8187 weak signal, occasional slow performance https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/293946 You

[Bug 293946] Re: realtek rtl8187 weak signal, occasional slow performance

2010-01-03 Thread Nick Howden
... within 6 feet of the router connection appears to be fine (but can still only manage 11Mbs rather than 54) iwconfig gives ... wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:HOWDEN-1969 Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: 00:90:96:C7:95:61 Bit Rate=11 Mb/s Tx-Power=20

[Bug 293946] Re: realtek rtl8187 weak signal, occasional slow performance

2009-12-09 Thread Bellis
I have Karmic, fully up to date, and it works perfect, just as good as in Windows. I think we need to try and see what could be the problem for people still affected. 2.6.31.15 Kernel. Karmic Intel chipset and motherboard. -- realtek rtl8187 weak signal, occasional slow performance

[Bug 293946] Re: realtek rtl8187 weak signal, occasional slow performance

2009-12-08 Thread Neil Hollow
Can confirm the problem in 2.6.31-15-generic Karmic on Tosh sateillite l350-262. I've bought a new laptop due to motherboard failure but reception was much better on old laptop with different card in same places in house. Speed is also erratic. -- realtek rtl8187 weak signal, occasional slow

[Bug 293946] Re: realtek rtl8187 weak signal, occasional slow performance

2009-11-23 Thread Antonio J. de Oliveira
Hello I confirm that this bug is fixed in Karmic 2.6.31-15-generic2.6.31-15-generic 64-bit , realtek rtl8187 is performing up to expectations and the external smc adapter I had been using as a circumvent is now not working at all ;-) So for a correction there is a new bug (#479283). Cheers

[Bug 293946] Re: realtek rtl8187 weak signal, occasional slow performance

2009-11-11 Thread masfworld
i also have ALFA AWUS036H 500mW USB Adapter. Network Manager in Ubuntu 9.10 64 bits detected it but it isn't correctly, loss signal and working incorrectly. -- realtek rtl8187 weak signal, occasional slow performance https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/293946 You received this bug notification

[Bug 293946] Re: realtek rtl8187 weak signal, occasional slow performance

2009-11-11 Thread ChrisLees
This bug is well and truly fixed in Karmic. I get faster speeds than I ever had before, with good range and VERY good reliability (I can upload 30 gigs to my server successfully; that's something I can't even do with my Homeplug at this range). khuner: Enable the Jaunty Backports repository and

[Bug 293946] Re: realtek rtl8187 weak signal, occasional slow performance

2009-10-19 Thread khuner
I have ALFA AWUS036H: 802.11b/g 500mW USB Adapter. It has Realtek RTL8187 chip. I have the same problem. This Wifi card can pick up more signals than your ordinary Wireless Card (tested on Win XP SP3). On Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop, by default it uses a WRONG driver. There has to be a way to

[Bug 293946] Re: realtek rtl8187 weak signal, occasional slow performance

2009-09-15 Thread BuM
Helo, I have a problem with the compilation rtl8187L drivers from the kernel 2.6.31 + there is such an error root @ bum-laptop: / # make clean home/bum/sterowniki/rtl8187L_linux_26.1038.0626.2009.release make [1]: Leaving directory `/

[Bug 293946] Re: realtek rtl8187 weak signal, occasional slow performance

2009-08-19 Thread ChrisLees
The backported driver is pretty good, but it still has a tendency to disconnect when under load. When it disconnects, it will not reconnect, and plugging in my other wireless device and attempting to connect with that will often cause a kernel panic straight away. In the best case scenario, I'll

[Bug 293946] Re: realtek rtl8187 weak signal, occasional slow performance

2009-08-15 Thread aggravatedGestalt
RTL8187 USB wifi adaptor I found the following to work wonderfully after trying a horde of unsuccessful things: # sudo apt-get install linux-backports-modules-jaunty Note: This also fixed an issue with my Atheros ar9285 internal wifi card. I hope this helps someone. -- realtek rtl8187 weak

[Bug 293946] Re: realtek rtl8187 weak signal, occasional slow performance

2009-08-07 Thread ChrisLees
Dennis: That was my thought as well, that the error message is saying I don't handle this chip. I did try blacklisting the r8187 driver, but that accomplishes nothing as it appears that the rtl8187 driver has been wiped. Personally, I'd be having more fun if I could get reliable multi- gigabyte

[Bug 293946] Re: realtek rtl8187 weak signal, occasional slow performance

2009-08-07 Thread Dennis Nezic
When you say it wiped out the older rtl8187 driver, that means the find+grep command I mentioned above only shows one .ko file? (namely r8187.ko or something like that?) Perhaps re-installing your linux kernel package should bring it back -- assuming that's how it was originally installed. (Or

[Bug 293946] Re: realtek rtl8187 weak signal, occasional slow performance

2009-08-07 Thread ChrisLees
I just installed a kernel in Update Manager, and the backports modules, and now things are working well. Thanks Chris! Fix released, I guess. -- realtek rtl8187 weak signal, occasional slow performance https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/293946 You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 293946] Re: realtek rtl8187 weak signal, occasional slow performance

2009-08-06 Thread Dennis Nezic
Just a couple notes: the unknown RFChipID: 0x5!!! seems to suggest your chip might not be the same as the one the driver supports. Perhaps you can list the exact version you have (via lspci or lsusb). I haven't tried it yet, but when you compile the new driver, perhaps it doesn't allow you to

[Bug 293946] Re: realtek rtl8187 weak signal, occasional slow performance

2009-08-06 Thread chrisolof
Last I checked Andrea Merello hadn't been contributing to his sourceforge project for some time. Here's the link to it: http://sourceforge.net/projects/rtl8180-sa2400/ But Rosewill - the manufacturer of my rtl8187l usb stick - was still including his work on their driver CD and the same story

[Bug 293946] Re: realtek rtl8187 weak signal, occasional slow performance

2009-08-05 Thread Thomas Aaron
We (http:system76.com) have fixed this problem on our Starling Netbook that has an RTL8187B adapter. We downloaded and manually compiled the latest driver from Realtek. It has to be requested via email at this point. Once you have the driver (which I've attached below for your convenience) you

[Bug 293946] Re: realtek rtl8187 weak signal, occasional slow performance

2009-08-05 Thread ChrisLees
Thomas, that driver not only doesn't work on my ordinary RTL8187, but it has prevented the original kernel driver from working too. It will happily attach to the RTL8187 and find networks, but keeps giving this error repeatedly when trying to connect: [ 534.720351] rtl8187: ISLeave(): Turn on

[Bug 293946] Re: realtek rtl8187 weak signal, occasional slow performance

2009-07-23 Thread TJR
From my experience it's working best with kernel 2.6.30.1, there are still same problems but not such big as with earlier or default kernel. I compiled it by myself but as far as I know, there is some repository with deb packages of kernel's different versions. And as I wrote before, I can't even

[Bug 293946] Re: realtek rtl8187 weak signal, occasional slow performance

2009-07-23 Thread Dennis Nezic
It works for me with kernel 2.6.30.2, after manually installing the kernel from the aforementioned deb packages floating around. Hopefully it'll be in Ubuntu's official repos soon! -- realtek rtl8187 weak signal, occasional slow performance https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/293946 You received

[Bug 293946] Re: realtek rtl8187 weak signal, occasional slow performance

2009-07-22 Thread pixpihc
Hi everybody also have the, RTL8187 wireless chipset on my Asus PW DH Dlx with ubuntu Jaunty 4.02 64bit installed. and also experience the same problems; connection loss (specially when using bittorrent), connection signal is also abnormal low 15% instead of 90% has anybody a decent well

[Bug 293946] Re: realtek rtl8187 weak signal, occasional slow performance

2009-07-15 Thread PhilPuryear
FWIW, I think this is fixed in newer kernels. On Jaunty 64-bit with the vanilla 2.6.28-13 kernel, I consistently had a weak signal/poor performance/etc., but using the latest upstream kernel (2.6.31-rc3), the problem has disappeared. -- realtek rtl8187 weak signal, occasional slow performance

[Bug 293946] Re: realtek rtl8187 weak signal, occasional slow performance

2009-07-13 Thread TJR
I have the same problem - very weak signal, sometimes breaks of connection. I am using Ubuntu 9.04 64 bit and I have also tested: Ubuntu 9.04 64 bit: - kernel 2.6.30.1 - self-compiled kernel 2.6.30.1 - kernel 2.6.31 rc2 (I can't connect) Ubuntu 9.04 32 bit Ubuntu 9.10 64 bit (I can't connect)

[Bug 293946] Re: realtek rtl8187 weak signal, occasional slow performance

2009-07-07 Thread Alexandros
In my case I use a Belkin F5D7050 v5000 USB stick. Both in Intrepid and in Jaunty I can connect to only the closest wireless network and when I connect, there is absolutely no data transmission (I can't perform updates, firefox cannot connect to any server and under ping, I see no sending of data

[Bug 293946] Re: realtek rtl8187 weak signal, occasional slow performance

2009-07-07 Thread afeasfaerw23231233
I've now upgraded to 9.04 32bit. This problem still exists. However lowering the bit rate manually as the laptop being moved away from the router can definitely solve the problem. So I added the following aliases to my .bashrc alias fix11='sudo iwconfig wlan0 rate 11M fixed' alias fix1='sudo

[Bug 293946] Re: realtek rtl8187 weak signal, occasional slow performance

2009-06-02 Thread ahenric
I also had these problems with weak signal and bad performance with my RTL8187 usb stick under Jaunty. iwconfig also only showed 1Mb/s, even when I manually changed it to something else. On my DSL router I had WPA2 enabled (not both WPA WPA2). But Wicd could only do this combo (not sure at the

[Bug 293946] Re: realtek rtl8187 weak signal, occasional slow performance

2009-05-19 Thread Francis Liu
I've upgraded to Jaunty since writing the comment above https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/293946/comments/9. Problem still exists. It still looks and behaves the same. Signal strength is 15% and throughput is about 5.something Mbps. Instead of 54Mbps. The chipset is now

[Bug 293946] Re: realtek rtl8187 weak signal, occasional slow performance

2009-05-19 Thread Jan Dageförde
In Jaunty there is a driver which shows full (i.e. normal) signal. However it can only be used by activating linux-backports-modules- jaunty-generic in your package manager - I don't know whether this raises other issues in terms of stability. -- realtek rtl8187 weak signal, occasional slow

[Bug 293946] Re: realtek rtl8187 weak signal, occasional slow performance

2009-03-21 Thread afeasfaerw23231233
I am sorry that my previous post was wrong. I didn't install ndiswrapper correctly. Now I am using ndiswrapper with win 98 driver and the auto- negotiation works. So far doesn't have sudden disconnection problem. But I think the native driver doesn't work. The rate wouldn't drop as the signal is

[Bug 293946] Re: realtek rtl8187 weak signal, occasional slow performance

2009-03-17 Thread afeasfaerw23231233
The fix rate method on my previous post doesn't fix the problem. The connection loses every one to two hours instead of few minutes (still an improvement, err..) These two messages appear at the same time as the connection loses. dmesg: wlan0: No ProbeResp from current AP 00:19:54:2f:93:da -

[Bug 293946] Re: realtek rtl8187 weak signal, occasional slow performance

2009-03-15 Thread Krylov Ilya
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) = Krylov Ilya (i-krylov) ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Assignee: Krylov Ilya (i-krylov) = (unassigned) -- realtek rtl8187 weak signal, occasional slow performance https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/293946 You received this bug

[Bug 293946] Re: realtek rtl8187 weak signal, occasional slow performance

2009-03-11 Thread Villosoph
I had the same problem. Signal strength is now improved due to the installation of compat wireless drivers. http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Download Bevor I couldn't even ping the default gateway. No it's possible to ping and the signal strength is a the same level as in windows. But still

[Bug 293946] Re: realtek rtl8187 weak signal, occasional slow performance

2009-03-11 Thread afeasfaerw23231233
I have the same very weak signal isuue on my realtek 8187 too. I am using ndiswrapper win 98 driver now and the wireless siganl will be broken if distance from the router to the notebook more than 3 metres, making the wlan completely useless. The native driver came from Ubuntu 8.10 kernel

[Bug 293946] Re: realtek rtl8187 weak signal, occasional slow performance

2009-03-11 Thread ChrisLees
It's been mentioned before on older bug reports regarding this wireless chipset, but I just realised that it hasn't been mentioned on this bug report. You can get speed, range and reliability from your wireless card if you install the Aircrack driver. Details here:

[Bug 293946] Re: realtek rtl8187 weak signal, occasional slow performance

2009-03-11 Thread afeasfaerw23231233
I think I finally get the solution. The fixed rate work for me so far. I am quite sure my connection hangs because the driver (either the native or the ndiswrapper win 98 one) doesn't know how to do the auto- negotiation with the router. For example, in Windows XP the transfer rate would drop as

[Bug 293946] Re: realtek rtl8187 weak signal, occasional slow performance

2009-01-26 Thread ChrisLees
@Dennis Nezic: It even worked under Hardy. I just tried the current Kubuntu 9.04 live CD (64-bit); the signal strength problem is still there. -- realtek rtl8187 weak signal, occasional slow performance https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/293946 You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 293946] Re: realtek rtl8187 weak signal, occasional slow performance

2009-01-25 Thread chrisolof
I'm also experiencing this issue with Ubuntu 8.10 64-bit and the rtl8187. I'm using an ASRock mobo that comes with a built-in WIFI chip. In XP it gets 100% signal strength, but when I boot into Ubuntu I'm stuck at 14% with a maximum of about 300KB/s throughput. After using the connection for

[Bug 293946] Re: realtek rtl8187 weak signal, occasional slow performance

2009-01-15 Thread Dennis Nezic
I just installed and updated Ubuntu, and I have this same problem. I'm using linux 2.6.27-9-generic :|. As the original poster mentioned, I'm also getting, odly enough, just 14% signal strength, which isn't enough for a stable connection. If I switch to ndiswrapper, I get the expected 50%. The

[Bug 293946] Re: realtek rtl8187 weak signal, occasional slow performance

2009-01-03 Thread tymek666
I've notice this problem with Intel wirless (ASmobile s96-jm laptop) buy only with 2.6.27-11 kernel. Older 2.6.27-9 works fine. -- realtek rtl8187 weak signal, occasional slow performance https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/293946 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 293946] Re: realtek rtl8187 weak signal, occasional slow performance

2009-01-02 Thread brandonhon
i have the same issue with the realtek rtl8187. i am running intrepid. signal strength is very low and somtimes drops. signal strength was better in hardy but connection would drop for no reason. -- realtek rtl8187 weak signal, occasional slow performance https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/293946

[Bug 293946] Re: realtek rtl8187 weak signal, occasional slow performance

2009-01-01 Thread Bellis
Problem still present on Realtek RTL8187, running Intrepid, Kernel 2.6.27.9. Signal strength VERY low, whereas in XP all working fine (Obv a driver issue).In Hardy this problem was not present, although the signal would just drop in the middle of surfing. -- realtek rtl8187 weak signal,

[Bug 293946] Re: realtek rtl8187 weak signal, occasional slow performance

2009-01-01 Thread Bellis
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: New = Confirmed -- realtek rtl8187 weak signal, occasional slow performance https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/293946 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 293946] Re: realtek rtl8187 weak signal, occasional slow performance

2008-12-25 Thread Francis Liu
Me too. Same chip but on a Asus P5b Deluxe mobo. In my search-for-an-answer I found all sorts of magic incantations: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=571188 http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=792092 -- realtek rtl8187 weak signal, occasional slow performance

[Bug 293946] Re: realtek rtl8187 weak signal, occasional slow performance

2008-12-21 Thread ChrisLees
Problem has not been fixed in Linux 2.6.27-11 from the Intrepid Proposed repository. Signal strength is still low and bad packet loss occurs from time to time causing web pages to not load, or to load with stoppages. -- realtek rtl8187 weak signal, occasional slow performance

[Bug 293946] Re: realtek rtl8187 weak signal, occasional slow performance

2008-12-21 Thread ChrisLees
** Attachment added: New uname http://launchpadlibrarian.net/20614662/new_uname.txt -- realtek rtl8187 weak signal, occasional slow performance https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/293946 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 293946] Re: realtek rtl8187 weak signal, occasional slow performance

2008-12-13 Thread Ondrej
I have same problem after upgrading to Intrepid from Hardy. After a while (sometimes 5-10 minutes, sometimes more than a hour) connection stopped working (NetworkManager haven't recognized any problems, nothing in dmesg ). I have to unplug/plug usb wifi dongle to reconnect to AP. [ 974.204072]

[Bug 293946] Re: realtek rtl8187 weak signal, occasional slow performance

2008-12-03 Thread IanW
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: None = linux -- realtek rtl8187 weak signal, occasional slow performance https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/293946 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing

[Bug 293946] Re: realtek rtl8187 weak signal, occasional slow performance

2008-12-02 Thread cheesypoof
I too have an RTL8187 chip on my Asus P5K Deluxe Motherboard. My signal strength is only 18% in Ubuntu 8.10(32 bit), where as in Vista(32 bit) on the same computer I get full signal strength. I have high speed cable and am using a D-Link DGL-4500 with WPA2 AES. Just as the original poster said,

[Bug 293946] Re: realtek rtl8187 weak signal, occasional slow performance

2008-11-04 Thread ChrisLees
** Attachment added: Dmesg http://launchpadlibrarian.net/19368436/dmesg.log -- realtek rtl8187 weak signal, occasional slow performance https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/293946 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

[Bug 293946] Re: realtek rtl8187 weak signal, occasional slow performance

2008-11-04 Thread ChrisLees
** Attachment added: Lsusb http://launchpadlibrarian.net/19368451/lsusb.log -- realtek rtl8187 weak signal, occasional slow performance https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/293946 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

[Bug 293946] Re: realtek rtl8187 weak signal, occasional slow performance

2008-11-04 Thread ChrisLees
** Attachment added: Proc Version Signature http://launchpadlibrarian.net/19368476/proc_version_signature.log -- realtek rtl8187 weak signal, occasional slow performance https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/293946 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which

[Bug 293946] Re: realtek rtl8187 weak signal, occasional slow performance

2008-11-04 Thread ChrisLees
** Attachment added: Uname -a http://launchpadlibrarian.net/19368487/uname-a.log ** Description changed: I have a Realtek RTL8187 wireless chipset on my Asus P5K Premium motherboard. Under Gutsy and Hardy 32-bit this chip performed relatively fine (occasional dropouts that are a known