Return-path: Received: from mail-ob0-f176.google.com ([209.85.214.176]:33754 "EHLO mail-ob0-f176.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753481AbbHaRvU (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Aug 2015 13:51:20 -0400 Received: by obcji4 with SMTP id ji4so3630856obc.0 for ; Mon, 31 Aug 2015 10:51:19 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: RTL8189ETV To: poma , linux-wireless , Hans de Goede References: <55E47A27.4090703@gmail.com> <55E48988.1000803@gmail.com> From: Larry Finger Message-ID: <55E49415.7090807@lwfinger.net> (sfid-20150831_195123_579945_4BBE5054) Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 12:51:17 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <55E48988.1000803@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 08/31/2015 12:06 PM, poma wrote: > On 31.08.2015 18:00, poma wrote: >> >> Hi Fi, >> >> What is this device, is it supported by >> https://github.com/orangepi-xunlong/linux-sunxi/tree/orangepi-3.4/drivers/net/wireless/rtl8189es >> >> $ modinfo rtl8189es >> modinfo: ERROR: Module rtl8189es not found. >> > > or is it supported by > https://github.com/orangepi-xunlong/linux-sunxi/tree/orangepi-3.4/drivers/net/wireless/rtl8188eu > https://github.com/lwfinger/rtl8188eu > as RTL8188ETV is > > $ modinfo rtl8188eu > modinfo: ERROR: Module rtl8188eu not found. > > > However RTL8188ETV is USB 2.0 device, > eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee not again! That last comment does not help. If rtl8188eu is not available, that is the fault of your distro, not anything that driver maintainers can help. That driver is in the staging directory, and some distros do not include any of those drivers in their kernels. eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee not again! Someone posts about a USB device not found, and they refuse/fail to provide the USB ID. Why, I do not know when the lsusb command provides this info so easily. Larry