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From: German <gentgerman@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] RTL8192CU
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2015 10:00:36
Message-Id: 20150321060024.710562f4cd2304b43d0efe31@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] RTL8192CU by Alexander Kapshuk
1 On Sat, 21 Mar 2015 10:36:08 +0200
2 Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kapshuk@×××××.com> wrote:
3
4 > Was the firmware for the driver in question installed as well?
5 >
6 > What's the output of 'lspci -k' and 'lsusb -v' for your device?
7
8 It works, so yes, firmare is installed. Module's name is rtl8192cu. It just drops the connection after a while, this is a problem
9 >
10 > On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 7:42 PM, German <gentgerman@×××××.com> wrote:
11 >
12 > > Today I've bought a new USB wi-fi adapter which has rtl8192cu chip. I've
13 > > plugged it into my lubuntu computer and it worked out of the box, however
14 > > soon it drops the connection. I googled it and found out that many people
15 > > have the same problem with this chip ( but mostly with *buntu flavours). I
16 > > also found the workaround here: https://github.com/pvaret/rtl8192cu-fixes
17 > > This box will be soon ( I hope ) will be transferred to Gentoo. I wonder if
18 > > some one here is using this chip with Gentoo with new kernels, does it run
19 > > ok and if this problem of *buntu specific? Thanks
20 > >
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22 > > German <gentgerman@×××××.com>
23 > >
24 > >
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28 German <gentgerman@×××××.com>

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Re: [gentoo-user] RTL8192CU Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>