2012-03-11 19:57:56

by alupu

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Subject: Re: r8712u staging in kernel 3.2.9

On 03/10/12 11:23 PM, Larry Finger wrote:

> I have a Rosewill RNX-N180UBE. The chip is a RTL8191RU, but appears to be
> programmed the same as the RTL8191SU. Mine works with the standard r8712u driver.

In WinXP, the driver is identified as 'RTL8192su.sys', so
for the heck of it, I enabled two additional modules,
RTL8192U and RTL8192E.
Not surprisingly, Rosewill wants to work with r8712u only.

> The two possible firmware files have the following md5sum:
> 200fd952db3cc9259b1fd05e3e51966f /lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8712u.bin_122328
> 8e6396b5844a3e279ae8679555dec3f0 /lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8712u.bin_129304

Both check out OK.

> Could you please download a Live KDE CD from ...

Working on that.

Thanks,
-- Alex