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On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 4:18 PM, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote: |
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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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Hi, |
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Thanks for the pointer! While that firmware itself does nothing for me |
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(the Realtek driver already includes the latest firmware in the source |
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code), Googling Larry Finger's name along with this chipset led me to |
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some other (and very recent) posts which tell me that this driver only |
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works on 32-bit systems and that no functioning 64-bit driver is |
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available. That's too bad. I suppose all I can do now is wait for |
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Realtek to fix it and release a working driver. |
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Thanks again. |
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