From: Paul Menzel <paulepanter@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Connection not established with Realtek RTL8188CUS based USB device (EDIMAX)
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:03:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1371506626.5980.2.camel@mattotaupa> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51BCD7BA.1040900@lwfinger.net>
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Am Samstag, den 15.06.2013, 16:08 -0500 schrieb Larry Finger:
> On 06/15/2013 02:57 PM, Paul Menzel wrote:
> > hopefully I am contacting the correct list. I am not able to use the
> > Realtek RTL8188CUS based USB WLAN device Edimax EW-7811Un.
> >
> > Bus 002 Device 005: ID 7392:7811 Edimax Technology Co., Ltd EW-7811Un 802.11n Wireless Adapter [Realtek RTL8188CUS]
> >
> > The device did not work with Debian Wheezy with Linux 3.2.x, Debian
> > Sid/unstable with Linux 3.9.x, Ubuntu 12.04 with Linux 3.2.12 to 3.5 and
> > Ubuntu 13.04 with Linux 3.8. The person, from whom the device is from,
> > claims the device once worked with Ubuntu, but I do not know which
> > version and what WLAN type(?) this was with.
> >
> > The behavior is always the same. The device is detected and the
> > NetworkManager applet `nm-applet` is also able to detect the available
> > networks. But wanting to connect to one and entering the correct
> > password, the connection cannot be established and I am asked for the
> > password again. I tested this with different systems and different
> > networks and also with wpa_supplicant. A Ralink based WLAN USB device
> > works just fine.
> >
> > The Realtek RTL8188CUS WLAN device works also fine under Microsoft
> > Windows, so the device is functional.
>
> Use a compat-wireless package from 3.10-rc1 or later. If that fails, then I will
> give you a debug sequence to run.
I resorted to installing Linux 3.10-rc5 from Debian experimental [1].
$ uname -a
Linux myhostname 3.10-rc5-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.10~rc5-1~exp1 (2013-06-11) i686 GNU/Linux
The error is still there.
Thanks,
Paul
[1] http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/l/linux/linux-image-3.10-rc5-686-pae_3.10~rc5-1~exp1_i386.deb
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-17 22:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-15 19:57 Connection not established with Realtek RTL8188CUS based USB device (EDIMAX) Paul Menzel
2013-06-15 21:08 ` Larry Finger
2013-06-17 21:38 ` Paul Menzel
2013-06-17 22:19 ` Larry Finger
2013-06-18 7:54 ` Paul Menzel
2013-06-18 15:26 ` Larry Finger
2013-06-17 22:03 ` Paul Menzel [this message]
2013-06-19 22:36 ` Paul Menzel
2013-07-19 9:47 ` Paul Menzel
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