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On Wednesday 26 January 2011 16:22:03 Paul Hartman wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I recently bought a USB wifi adapter with RTL8192CU chipset. Drivers |
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> are available from Realtek's website, and are updated regularly (last |
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> month), but are not in the mainline Linux kernel or in the portage |
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> tree. |
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> Compiling and installing the drivers is not a problem, but every time |
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> I insert the USB adapter my computer freezes and no amount of |
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> magic-SysRq can get me out of it. I tried on 2 different Gentoo |
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> machines with the same result. |
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> The adapter works (poorly...) on a Windows XP machine, so I know the |
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> hardware is functional. |
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> Does anyone else here use these drivers? |
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I'm not using this hardware, but have you seen this? |
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http://amailbox.net/mailarchive/linux-kernel/2010/12/13/4658671 |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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