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From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: peter@chubb.wattle.id.au
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: State of rtl8192CU driver?
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 09:09:08 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DFB6004.1060006@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <w4hb7ohfo5.wl%peter@chubb.wattle.id.au>

On 06/17/2011 06:15 AM, peter@chubb.wattle.id.au wrote:
>
> Hi.
> 	I'm trying out the rtl8192CU driver with an edimax wireless N
> 	dongle.  The driver loads correctly, and wpa_supplicant can
> 	trigger an association with an access point, using WPA2/PEAP.
> 	I'm using the tip of Linus's kernel tree (3.0.0-rc2)
>
> 	But the interface then does nothing:  it doesn't pick up an
> 	ipv6 address from radvd broadcasts, nor does it appear to send
> 	any dhcp requests, even though the TX packet counter increases.
>
> 	
> 	Do you have any ideas about how I could debug this?

You should inspect the output from dmesg to see if anything is reported. In 
addition, use wireshark to see what is on the air.

What kind of connection is being tried?

Larry

  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-17 14:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-17 11:15 State of rtl8192CU driver? peter
2011-06-17 14:09 ` Larry Finger [this message]
2011-06-20  0:35   ` Peter Chubb
2011-06-20 21:52     ` Larry Finger
2011-06-20 21:55     ` Larry Finger
2011-06-21  3:24       ` Peter Chubb
2011-06-21  4:25         ` Larry Finger
2011-06-21  4:38           ` Peter Chubb

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