From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DD92138CC5 for ; Sun, 22 Mar 2015 09:19:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0CF8DE08F8; Sun, 22 Mar 2015 09:19:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-la0-f46.google.com (mail-la0-f46.google.com [209.85.215.46]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BA6ABE08F2 for ; Sun, 22 Mar 2015 09:19:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: by labe2 with SMTP id e2so38947629lab.3 for ; Sun, 22 Mar 2015 02:19:45 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=0z2jev4SiUpGrc5rQEPE9wzMvVkP8gDyQKkVROXvP0M=; b=HofCVjRi7sfqlbWZd2nPq/yEFoYrWqiSPwiM5U+4eOcZ+EidQNezRLgVoiiB4bXUM9 Gl0JQLjTom5TuS2EJ7fCY/d3zyUawmH2PR2hTtVBG610uOzYSQyxi3g19ydh8fuswa1Y NX+oyDoxOQkB9w28IIJC9lDZ0f5cLYT5tTG5QG67pEmY2nO2tkXaG05LuWf9GvJl0ONx TT42M4xsXz6dw78HfNhh9TEpVVmA11xpMwdbVMRU6jV4+ZgbvoMf6O3ZqRNVUiDbgQXc 85MqVW4HiGHGjU0zPng/qAYMGAN4pMjJysY6T9QRq1M5ClPSekv1Y33UzXt2TR01sHlO m+BA== X-Received: by 10.152.36.226 with SMTP id t2mr75295441laj.53.1427015985258; Sun, 22 Mar 2015 02:19:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from digger (95-55-6-114.dynamic.avangarddsl.ru. [95.55.6.114]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id zr10sm1926736lbb.38.2015.03.22.02.19.43 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 22 Mar 2015 02:19:44 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2015 05:19:41 -0400 From: German To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] RTL8192CU Message-Id: <20150322051941.0f38632cdb35c107033f0f83@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <16991680.BpUZpxu8ZJ@aspire> References: <20150319134204.e90a6504e1668975575a634c@gmail.com> <20150321060024.710562f4cd2304b43d0efe31@gmail.com> <20150321101056.215b4157@digimed.co.uk> <16991680.BpUZpxu8ZJ@aspire> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.4.2 (GTK+ 2.24.25; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 7a07ed9b-8037-4c8f-af1a-093d44b23089 X-Archives-Hash: 057843b712680e5581665bf7ae077bfd On Sun, 22 Mar 2015 09:01:03 +0000 Mick 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 --