Re: [gentoo-user] RTL-tm NICs (Was RTL8192CU)
On Mar 21, 2015, at 12:06, German gentger...@gmail.com 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 chipset was not mentioned on the manufacturers site but searching the net shows it is AR9271 and the module is ath9k_htc. On top of that you need to download atheros firmware and install that to your kernel. It has WPS setup. Some drivers with this have huge security hole that even if you disable WPS it remains on. If WPS is on there is practically no security in you WiFi network. In that case using a VPN is the only choice. I would not recommend it, but I have no personal experience with the particular chipset. Although I don't recommend WiFi either ;) ...without a proper VPN. -- -Matti
Re: [gentoo-user] RTL-tm NICs (Was RTL8192CU)
On Sat, 21 Mar 2015 08:03:29 +0200 Matti Nykyri matti.nyk...@iki.fi wrote: On Mar 19, 2015, at 20:46, Ralf ralf+gen...@ramses-pyramidenbau.de 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 work like 400$ ones. No more Realtek WiFi cards for me. Hi Matti. What about this one: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833704045 I saw some recommendations on this one from people using linux +1 -- -Matti -- German gentger...@gmail.com
Re: [gentoo-user] RTL-tm NICs (Was RTL8192CU)
On Mar 19, 2015, at 20:46, Ralf ralf+gen...@ramses-pyramidenbau.de 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 work like 400$ ones. No more Realtek WiFi cards for me. +1 -- -Matti
Re: [gentoo-user] RTL-tm NICs (Was RTL8192CU)
On Sat, 21 March 2015, at 6:03 am, Matti Nykyri matti.nyk...@iki.fi 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 bought them from different suppliers on eBay and, although they looked identical, they contained different RTL chipsets. As I recollect, one worked perfectly one was flakey or worked not at all, but I was running them on an old PPC iMac and assumed that was the cause. I did a fair bit of debugging, intending to post to the Linux wifi driver developers list, before losing interest. I kinda figured at such cheap prices I could, in future, afford to buy 2 or 3 wifi cards from 2 to 4 different suppliers (so $8 - $24 total) and I'd be likely to find at least one batch that works perfectly. Everyone complains when they get a cheap shitty wifi card that doesn't work, but there is probably an element of confirmation bias to this - we forget about all the cheap shitty wifi adaptors that just work perfectly. Are the name brands really that much more reliable? I originally read your comment as 10$ NICs just don't work like 40$ ones - realising that you wrote $400 is obviously a different matter. Reliability easily justifies $400 for the datacentre, but not for most home users. Stroller.
