Great News regarding RTL8187SE Wifi Module

marckie · **Posted:** Thu Oct 02, 2008 4:11 am

Guys,

I emailed the guys from Realtek and asked them nicely for the Wifi drivers of our modules and guess what they said...

Code:

The driver has been released! You can now download it at the bottom of this post. ~Solinx

Here's our conversation:

Quote:

On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 12:02 PM, maRckie dacz <mdacanay@gmail.com> wrote:

Fred,

Thank you very much to this wonderful news.
I will check continually the Realtek Website for the drivers.

Thank you very much and more power to you!

Regards,
Marc

On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 9:50 AM, fred <fredchiou@realtek.com.tw> wrote:

Dear Sir,

Thanks for your e-mail.

We are development 8187SE Mac driver now and expect release to Realtek web site later.

Regards,

Fred

From: maRckie dacz [mailto:mdacanay@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 5:04 PM
To: Wlanfae
Subject: RTL8187SE

Good day!

I know you might have received so many mails with regards to this chipset lately specially that this is used in so many netbooks nowadays. I also believe this question might have been asked a million times before. However, I still want to ask if it is possible for you to provide us with a driver of this chipset for MAC?

I really hope you can and I believe that its not that hard for you to do so (I'm also working in R&D). I believe you have templates for these type of chipsets and I'm hoping you can find time to do so... I'll be truly grateful if you do... (Me and the thousands who are using this chip right now)

Thank you very much and I'm looking forward to your reply.

Regards,
Marc

Yipee!!!

I can now ditch this wifi dongle im using and don't need to open up my wind for replacement. That'll solve my warranty dillema!
What a great day it is...

I just hope they'll do what they promised... hmmmmm.... :?:

Attachment:

File comment: The driver

Realtek_RTL8187SE_MacOS10.5_Driver_073_UI_1.6.2.zip [737.65 KiB]
Downloaded 2804 times

door_jam · **Joined:** Sun Jul 20, 2008 3:12 pm **Posts:** 43

This is really good news. In addition to the pending sound fix, this will make the Wind a perfect "macbook"!

marckie · **Posted:** Thu Oct 02, 2008 5:09 am

Yup! And I can't wait...
Please help me watch out the Realtek Website for the drivers...

Thanks!

jumanz · **Joined:** Fri Aug 01, 2008 1:40 am **Posts:** 25

yes ~ finally ~

marckie · **Posted:** Thu Oct 02, 2008 5:44 am

ri0ku · **Posted:** Thu Oct 02, 2008 9:19 am

the pending sound fix? I thought sound worked on the wind except for input and headphones? but sound works fine through the speakers?

chevrolet7766 · **Joined:** Sat Sep 20, 2008 9:07 am **Posts:** 240

No this is about integrated wifi card...sound is being discussed in other topic...anyway sound works just fine from speakers..

ri0ku · **Posted:** Thu Oct 02, 2008 9:38 am

I know its about the wifi I was replying to door_jam "In addition to the pending sound fix" Got me confused as I thought sound worked fine... other than headphones

But nice to hear about the wifi tho...Im not much a fan of the dell 1490 or 1390 for that matter... had bad experience with them

Boobo-oobo · **Joined:** Mon Sep 15, 2008 4:29 pm **Posts:** 11

As i understend it, this means that the drivers should come today, right??

chevrolet7766 · **Joined:** Sat Sep 20, 2008 9:07 am **Posts:** 240

You never know...hopefully it will..

door_jam · **Joined:** Sun Jul 20, 2008 3:12 pm **Posts:** 43

ri0ku wrote:

I know its about the wifi I was replying to door_jam "In addition to the pending sound fix" Got me confused as I thought sound worked fine... other than headphones

But nice to hear about the wifi tho...Im not much a fan of the dell 1490 or 1390 for that matter... had bad experience with them

I was actually referring to this:
http://forums.msiwind.net/mac/sound-fix-coming-shortly-t3911.html

marckie · **Posted:** Fri Oct 03, 2008 12:27 am

I don't know what "later" means to Fred of Realtek... Hopefully not "later" this year...

er_mouloud · **Posted:** Sat Oct 04, 2008 12:32 am

That's great news.
It seems that all of our emails finally paid off.
Can't wait for this release and the new boot -132 method.

marckie · **Posted:** Sat Oct 04, 2008 3:35 am

I agree... but I hope they'll release it very soon... I can't wait...

MarcNL · **Posted:** Sat Oct 04, 2008 5:55 am

I wish Synaptics would be just as helpful writing a driver for OSX ...

targa · **Joined:** Thu Aug 28, 2008 1:10 pm **Posts:** 83

ot:
can our synaptics touchpads work in osx? multitouch?

the_accidental · **Joined:** Thu Sep 11, 2008 4:30 pm **Posts:** 41

The synaptics pads work fine. Just as well as the pads in non-multitouch macs. (as they are made by synaptic). It's hardware reasons they don't do multitouch, cos they're a cheaper pad.

The sentillic ones don't work as pad in os-x.

spitfire123123 · **Joined:** Thu Aug 28, 2008 3:50 pm **Posts:** 103

well thats good and bad- i just ordered a dell 1390!

hopefully they come out soon...

ph0o · **Joined:** Sat Oct 04, 2008 11:15 am **Posts:** 26

wohooo .. that would be great!

GreeZ

chevrolet7766 · **Joined:** Sat Sep 20, 2008 9:07 am **Posts:** 240

I wonder if Fred wasnt some secretary or anybody like that.... and didnt mixed 8187SE with some other card...or he said it just to see how it will spread over the internet..no one knows...Im checking this link 10 times per day :-)

his "check realtek site later" is the cause of I cant sleep well anymore... :-)

http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PFid=40&Level=5&Conn=4&ProdID=172&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false&Downloads=true

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