rtl8192cu-fixes

Realtek 8192 chipset driver, ported to kernel 3.11.

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Realtek 8192 chipset driver, ported to kernel 3.11.

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farresito·Jul 23, 2014

Ah, interesting. I barely move my Thinkpad, too, so it's not that big of a deal, but it's very sad all the situation. Someone mentioned here a github user was maintaining a driver for the card he was using, so I decided to check out if someone had a patched version of the Realtek I have on my computer, and it seems that there is: https://github.com/FreedomBen/rtl8188ce-linux-driver You might want to check out https://github.com/pvaret/rtl8192cu-fixes and https://github.com/dz0ny/rt8192cu

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slacka·Jul 23, 2014

I discovered this for myself after converting my parents 5 year old PC from XP to Linux Mint. As you can see from the bug tracker: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/852190 the kernel drivers are much buggier than the GPL'd Realtek drivers. But the official Realtek drivers don't work with newer kernel versions. Fortunately there is: https://github.com/pvaret/rtl8192cu-fixes Does anyone know why doesn't the kernel adopt the official drivers? Is there anything I can do to help? What steps do I need to do?

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