Re: [gentoo-user] RTL-tm NICs (Was RTL8192CU)

2015-03-21 Thread Stroller
On Sat, 21 March 2015, at 6:03 am, Matti Nykyri wrote: > > I've had nothing but problems with RTL-chipsets. But if you buy ~10$ NICs > they just don't work like 400$ ones. $10!?!? I paid $2 each, including delivery, for a couple of rtl8192cu / RTL8188CUS wifi dongles a year ago. I actually b

Re: [gentoo-user] RTL-tm NICs (Was RTL8192CU)

2015-03-21 Thread Matti Nykyri
> On Mar 21, 2015, at 12:06, German wrote: > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833704045 > I saw some recommendations on this one from people using linux The manufacturer doesn't support Linux officially. I would not buy a USB NIC unless that was the only choice! The chips

Re: [gentoo-user] RTL-tm NICs (Was RTL8192CU)

2015-03-21 Thread German
On Sat, 21 Mar 2015 08:03:29 +0200 Matti Nykyri wrote: > > On Mar 19, 2015, at 20:46, Ralf wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I had a rtl8192ce in my laptop. Nothing but problems with Linux. Don't > > know why, but the signal strength always was much better when using Windows. > > I've had nothing bu

Re: [gentoo-user] RTL-tm NICs (Was RTL8192CU)

2015-03-20 Thread Matti Nykyri
> On Mar 19, 2015, at 20:46, Ralf wrote: > > Hi, > > I had a rtl8192ce in my laptop. Nothing but problems with Linux. Don't > know why, but the signal strength always was much better when using Windows. I've had nothing but problems with RTL-chipsets. But if you buy ~10$ NICs they just don't w