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Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 16:02:39 -0700
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Subject: Re: Realtek rtl8188 support?
From: Paul Thomas <pthomas8589@gmail.com>
To: Hin-Tak Leung <hintak.leung@gmail.com>
Cc: Claus Ried <claus.ried@gmail.com>, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
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On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 8:37 PM, Hin-Tak Leung <hintak.leung@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Claus Ried <claus.ried@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> i have the same problems with an rtl8188su based usb wlan stick running on an
>> amd64 based mandriva 2.6.33 kernel. The current staging drivers (inlcuding the
>> firmware) do work to some extent, scanning is ok, listing surrounding wlans is
>> working.
>> But, i cannot connect to my wpa2 encrypted network using this stick.
>> Everything is working fine if i am using the internal laptop wlan card (intel
>> based).
>> Any ideas why the usb stick won't connect?
>> Claus
>
> The Realtek vendor driver has always bundled its own wpa_supplicant
> and I have wondered what mod they have made. Are you using your distro
> wpa_supplicant or the Realtek vendor bundled one?

So this is working for me now. I'm using the r8712u driver from here:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/lwfinger/r8712u.git;a=summary

With debian's wpa_supplicant v0.6.4.

thanks,
Paul