Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:49726 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752718AbcEJUvW (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 May 2016 16:51:22 -0400 From: Jes Sorensen To: Fisher Grubb Cc: Xose Vazquez Perez , linux-wireless Subject: Re: Realtek USB WiFi rtl8192eu References: Date: Tue, 10 May 2016 16:51:21 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Fisher Grubb's message of "Tue, 10 May 2016 23:16:36 +1000") Message-ID: (sfid-20160510_225127_505131_0F3B4D8E) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Fisher Grubb writes: > Hi Xose, > > I'm not sure, I have the latest version of Ubuntu on my laptop and I > had to use the DKMS -2 deb file to get it working as no driver claimed > it. > > After Googeling (especially for the 0bda:818b USB device and vendor > ID), it seemed the driver supported most of Realtek's WiFi devices but > mine wasn't listed. > > From memory, I used this page mainly when I was first checking: > https://wiki.debian.org/rtl819x > > I didn't see any people in forums mentioning how they managed to get > this standard driver working, they all seemed to either have no luck > because code didn't compile, or link to source code that did compile. > > If that mainline driver does work, then I assume there could be some > USB vendor and device IDs that it doesn't cover. > > Here's the link for where I bought it: > http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/181860888357 Patches to add rtl8192eu support was pulled into wireless-drivers-next recently and scheduled for the 4.7 kernel. It is not in Linus' tree yet. You should be able to try it out by either building Kalle's wireless-drivers-next or my rtl8xxxu-devel branch. The Realtek 8192EU driver you referenced is not scheduled to get pulled into the upstream Linux kernel. Cheers, Jes