Re: [gentoo-user] RTL8192CU

[German <gentgerman@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 22 Mar 2015 09:01:03 +0000
Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Saturday 21 Mar 2015 10:10:56 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > On Sat, 21 Mar 2015 06:00:24 -0400, German wrote:
> > > > Was the firmware for the driver in question installed as well?
> > > > 
> > > > What's the output of 'lspci -k' and 'lsusb -v' for your device?
> > > 
> > > It works, so yes, firmare is installed. Module's name is rtl8192cu. It
> > > just drops the connection after a while, this is a problem
> > 
> > You cannot assume that because it works, the firmware is there. The RTL
> > NIC in my Asus Vivo Mini MythTV frontend complained about missing
> > firmware at boot, but it still worked. Check dmesg, you may need firmware
> > to fix your problems.
> 
> +1
> 
> In addidion, use modinfo to find out what parameters the particular module has 
> and add these when you modprobe to switch off power management - which on 
> buggy drivers tends to power down the card.

Where do I have to use "modinfo". Can you give an example. From my research, that is exactly the power management which powers down the buggy drivers, but I don't know what what are these module options which will prevent to power the card down.
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> Mick


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