Heya Kurt, I have found a long time ago that, if you're planning on running Linux on hardware, it's best to buy hardware with Linux in mind. Especially for NIC./ Wifi adapters. The same goes for motherboard ( chipset ), and video adapters as well, but neither of these really apply to this situation.
Anyhow once I had adopted this way of thinking, my problems reduced significantly On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 1:54 PM, KurtE <[email protected]> wrote: > It has been quite a few months since I looked at this as well. I remember > back then (June?), that I did find some sources to build the driver for the > 8192cu, which back then worked quite well. I think I still have the > sources sitting on my PC, but it has been awhile since I figured out how to > build and install it. > > I installed his Debian build, which I really like, but the edimax adapter > has dropped a reasonable number of times now. So may try to see if I kept > my notes for installing the patched driver, but in the mean time, I ordered > one of the *tl-wn722n devices which hopefully will arrive tomorrow. > *Sometimes > it is easier to punt. > > On Monday, January 6, 2014 7:28:40 AM UTC-8, David Marquart wrote: >> >> building a driver from >> >> https://github.com/pvaret/rtl8192cu-fixes.git >> for the little one from adafruit seems to be working quite well. ran since >> thursday on 3.12.5 kernel without any issues that i could find so far. >> >> >> On Thursday, December 26, 2013 3:37:50 PM UTC-6, David Marquart wrote: >>> >>> Does anyone have a recommendation for a wifi adapter that works with >>> Robert Nelson's Ubuntu images? I have rtl8188cus and mt7601 and I can not >>> get either to work. At this point I would rather just order one that works >>> rather than waste more time trying to fight with either of these two. I >>> have building the kernel working and have tried several times to build a >>> new driver for both of these adapters but the mt7601 will not show up with >>> iwconfig and the rtl8188cus will show up see my access point but will not >>> connect to it. I am editing /etc/network/interfaces to try and get >>> connected to our WEP "protected" network. I have no control over the type >>> of encryption used. I was able to get everything working on Angstrom with >>> connman so I know it is possible. >>> >>> Sorry if this became a little bit of a rant but I have spent a lot of >>> time trying everything I could google up and now I just want to throw money >>> at the problem. >>> >> -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
