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Subject: Re: RTL8188EUS support
To:     Menion <menion@gmail.com>, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
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From:   Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
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Date:   Mon, 5 Nov 2018 20:26:57 -0600
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On 11/5/18 5:37 AM, Menion wrote:
> Hi all
> I have a question about the support of RTL8188EUS chipset (which I
> have in a TpLink 0bda:8179 usb dongle)
> This dongle works with the wext staging driver r8188eu driver. Is it
> meant to be supported in the rtl2xxx driver?

Assuming that you mean rtl8xxxu, the answer is no. I have no idea what rtl2xxx is.

If you want a cfg80211/nl80211 driver rather than the wext-based one, I am 
currently cleaning up a new driver from Realtek with the possibility of 
replacing the one now in staging with a new version. It can be obtained with the 
following command:

git clone https://github.com/lwfinger/rtl8188eu.git -b v5.2.2.4

This driver will definitely handle your device and has pretty good performance. 
Using a local speedtest.net-type web server, I get up to 50 Mbps down and 45 
Mbps up.

The driver is undergoing fairly rapid change, but mostly to remove lots of dead 
code, thus you will not need to pull that often. It will build on any kernel 
from 4.20 back to at least 2.6.13. I am only testing on 4.20-rc1.

Larry