Return-path: Received: from mail-ye0-f173.google.com ([209.85.213.173]:35846 "EHLO mail-ye0-f173.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754448Ab3BDVl7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Feb 2013 16:41:59 -0500 Received: by mail-ye0-f173.google.com with SMTP id l5so1696622yen.4 for ; Mon, 04 Feb 2013 13:41:58 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <51102B22.20702@gmail.com> (sfid-20130204_224203_236755_19964731) Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2013 22:41:54 +0100 From: Xose Vazquez Perez MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-wireless , Larry Finger , Thomas Rosenkranz Subject: Re: FW: 0bda:819a RTL8188CUS WLAN doesn't work out of the box in downstream and upstreamkernel Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Larry Finger wrote: > You are likely crashing more than X. > > That is very good evidence that rtl8192cu is *NOT* the correct driver for that > device. As I recall Xose found that USB ID in a Windows driver, but who knows > what changes are inside that driver? > > I have what I think is a complete collection of Realtek drivers for Linux, and > none of them have 0bda:819a as a USB ID. He's using the RTL8188C_8192C_USB_linux driver. Therefore, there are only two possibilities: - it's a 8192_du device, or - it's a 8192_cu device, and there is a bug in rtlwifi. Thomas, could you put "dmesg" output after loading 8192cu.ko (realtek driver) ? and "lsusb -v -d 0bda:819a" output.