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Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 09:26:21 -0600
From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
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Subject: Re: Question about Edimax 7811Un
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On 11/10/2010 06:25 AM, miloofr@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
> I would want to know what is the current state of the 8191su wireless
> driver. I have a wifi USB stick from EDIMAX, the 7811Un model, which is
> supposed to have a 8192su chip inside.
> It is not recognized neither from latest Ubuntu 10.10 nor openSUSE
> 11.3 . However I have been able to make it work by compiling the
> drivers proposed on the EDIMAX website, but this is only available for
> 32 bits systems/kernels.
> I saw that there were some discussion 2 months ago about this port
> from 32 to 64 bits, what is the current state today?

What are the USB IDs for this device as shown by lsusb?

If the numbers are 0x7392:0x7611, 0x7392:0x7612, or 0x7392:0x7622, the device is
supported by the r8712u driver in staging and is present in mainline kernel
2.6.37-rc1. I can assure you that the driver works for both 32- and 64-bit systems.

Larry