From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: Alberto Mardegan <mardy@users.sourceforge.net>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: tp-link tl-wn8200nd and rtlwifi_new drivers
Date: Sat, 16 May 2015 15:04:54 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5557A2E6.7070406@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5557A00E.1090104@users.sourceforge.net>
On 05/16/2015 02:52 PM, Alberto Mardegan wrote:
> Hi all!
> I unfortunately purchased a Tp-Link TL-WN8200ND USB wireless adapter, which
> is not working in Linux (there are several reports of this in this ML already,
> so I won't bother you with another one).
>
> I wanted to test the new rtlwifi_new drivers from
> https://github.com/lwfinger/rtlwifi_new
> to see if by any chance they could help having this device running. I built then
> and installed them (in Ubuntu 14.04), but I don't know how to make sure that the
> kernel is using the new drivers and not the old ones.
> Is there some hint in the syslog which could tell me whether I'm now using the
> new or the old drivers (for the record, it still doesn't work)?
Please list the USB ID for your device as shown by lsusb.
If you did the 'sudo make install' step without error, then these drivers are
loaded. All but one of the drivers in rtlwifi_new are for PCI devices, but you
have a USB model. Thus only driver rtl8192cu might be used by your device.
Larry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-05-16 20:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-16 19:52 tp-link tl-wn8200nd and rtlwifi_new drivers Alberto Mardegan
2015-05-16 20:04 ` Larry Finger [this message]
2015-05-16 20:45 ` Alberto Mardegan
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