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From: Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kapshuk@×××××.com>
To: Gentoo mailing list <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] RTL8192CU
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2015 08:37:00
Message-Id: CAJ1xhMUpUqkbh-Y__CgPCVXqyh3jzSfqtwe8DSFnU0zwSUJF9w@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] RTL8192CU by Alexander Kapshuk
1 On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 10:36 AM, Alexander Kapshuk <
2 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 > On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 7:42 PM, German <gentgerman@×××××.com> wrote:
9 >
10 >> Today I've bought a new USB wi-fi adapter which has rtl8192cu chip. I've
11 >> plugged it into my lubuntu computer and it worked out of the box, however
12 >> soon it drops the connection. I googled it and found out that many people
13 >> have the same problem with this chip ( but mostly with *buntu flavours). I
14 >> also found the workaround here: https://github.com/pvaret/rtl8192cu-fixes
15 >> This box will be soon ( I hope ) will be transferred to Gentoo. I wonder if
16 >> some one here is using this chip with Gentoo with new kernels, does it run
17 >> ok and if this problem of *buntu specific? Thanks
18 >>
19 >> --
20 >> German <gentgerman@×××××.com>
21 >>
22 >>
23 >
24 Apologies for top-posting.