On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 6:03 PM, Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 4:18 PM, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Wednesday 26 January 2011 16:22:03 Paul Hartman wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I recently bought a USB wifi adapter with RTL8192CU chipset. Drivers >>> are available from Realtek's website, and are updated regularly (last >>> month), but are not in the mainline Linux kernel or in the portage >>> tree. >>> >>> Compiling and installing the drivers is not a problem, but every time >>> I insert the USB adapter my computer freezes and no amount of >>> magic-SysRq can get me out of it. I tried on 2 different Gentoo >>> machines with the same result. >>> >>> The adapter works (poorly...) on a Windows XP machine, so I know the >>> hardware is functional. >>> >>> Does anyone else here use these drivers? >> >> I'm not using this hardware, but have you seen this? >> >> http://amailbox.net/mailarchive/linux-kernel/2010/12/13/4658671 > > Hi, > > Thanks for the pointer! While that firmware itself does nothing for me > (the Realtek driver already includes the latest firmware in the source > code), Googling Larry Finger's name along with this chipset led me to > some other (and very recent) posts which tell me that this driver only > works on 32-bit systems and that no functioning 64-bit driver is > available. That's too bad. I suppose all I can do now is wait for > Realtek to fix it and release a working driver. > > Thanks again.
Looks like Mr. Finger has submitted a driver for this device a couple days ago, targeting inclusion in the 2.6.39 kernel. I'll have to give it a try. http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/63851
