On Sat, 21 Mar 2015 10:36:08 +0200 Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kaps...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Was the firmware for the driver in question installed as well? > > What's the output of 'lspci -k' and 'lsusb -v' for your device? It works, so yes, firmare is installed. Module's name is rtl8192cu. It just drops the connection after a while, this is a problem > > On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 7:42 PM, German <gentger...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Today I've bought a new USB wi-fi adapter which has rtl8192cu chip. I've > > plugged it into my lubuntu computer and it worked out of the box, however > > soon it drops the connection. I googled it and found out that many people > > have the same problem with this chip ( but mostly with *buntu flavours). I > > also found the workaround here: https://github.com/pvaret/rtl8192cu-fixes > > This box will be soon ( I hope ) will be transferred to Gentoo. I wonder if > > some one here is using this chip with Gentoo with new kernels, does it run > > ok and if this problem of *buntu specific? Thanks > > > > -- > > German <gentger...@gmail.com> > > > > -- German <gentger...@gmail.com>
