Realtek Chipset RTL8187

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Mar 20, 2010, Luis Alberto <l.guzman.g at gmail.com> wrote:

> I was wondering, do we know something about this Chipset on Linux-Libre

> Is it working, or does it requires non-free firmware/driver?

It works just fine.  For some time I owned a laptop with it.  The only
issue was that laptop wouldn't suspend with the module loaded and, back
then, there was a suspicious sequence of bits in the portion of the
driver that enabled WPA, but it was since determined to be pure data
rather than a blob, so rtl8187 chips are compatible with freedom.

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