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From: Xose Vazquez Perez <xose.vazquez@gmail.com>
To: linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
	Charles Chambers <cchamb2@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Wifi driver for RTL8191SU
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2017 18:05:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3aaaf30c-c62a-8cf6-b2dd-76cdeb5dfbec@gmail.com> (raw)

Charles Chambers wrote:

> I have a USB wifi adapter based on the subject chipset.  Debian Linux
> for its new release (9.x) incorporates version 4.9 of the kernel, which
> does not work with the existing driver for this USB wifi adapter.  The
> driver for it (under Debian 8.x) shows as "r8712U".  There's a movement
> afoot to update the driver.
> 
> Any idea when an updated driver (or a wide beta restoring *some*
> functionality) could be expected?


There are three drivers:

- r8712u from staging, crappy with no future in staging or drivers/net/wireless
- r92su or rtl8192su from https://github.com/chunkeey/rtl8192su


More info about Realtek at: https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/rtl819x

             reply	other threads:[~2017-09-17 16:05 UTC|newest]

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2017-09-17 16:05 Xose Vazquez Perez [this message]
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2017-09-17 14:28 Wifi driver for RTL8191SU Charles Chambers

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