From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is anyone here using RTL8192CU wifi device in Gentoo?
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 22:18:38 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201101262218.48804.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinJSxpzdCpht=SscNcw6pTdBgyYvY0sLdsiREJn@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wednesday 26 January 2011 16:22:03 Paul Hartman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I recently bought a USB wifi adapter with RTL8192CU chipset. Drivers
> are available from Realtek's website, and are updated regularly (last
> month), but are not in the mainline Linux kernel or in the portage
> tree.
>
> Compiling and installing the drivers is not a problem, but every time
> I insert the USB adapter my computer freezes and no amount of
> magic-SysRq can get me out of it. I tried on 2 different Gentoo
> machines with the same result.
>
> The adapter works (poorly...) on a Windows XP machine, so I know the
> hardware is functional.
>
> Does anyone else here use these drivers?
I'm not using this hardware, but have you seen this?
http://amailbox.net/mailarchive/linux-kernel/2010/12/13/4658671
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Regards,
Mick
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2011-01-26 16:22 [gentoo-user] Is anyone here using RTL8192CU wifi device in Gentoo? Paul Hartman
2011-01-26 22:18 ` Mick [this message]
2011-01-27 0:03 ` Paul Hartman
2011-02-03 15:57 ` Paul Hartman
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