Thanks for the info. I wound up resolving this by going back to 7.11, which is mostly working as I want (barring wifi dropping connection periodically).
Thanks Joe On Monday, March 6, 2017 at 10:11:51 PM UTC-6, Barry Day wrote: > > rtl_usb is buggy. The fact anything that depends on it works, e.g. > rtl8192cu, is nothing more than a fluke. And there's no point fixing it > because it's being replaced by rtl8xxxu. > You could try blacklisting rtl8192cu so rtl8xxxu is loaded. It was a very > new driver back in kernel 4.4 but may work well enough although you may > still > have problems with connection dropping out. There was a bug in rtl8xxxu > that only affected certain chipsets that existed up till around December > 2016 > when I reported the cause to the maintainer. > > For any realtek usb wifi dongles, if a person is up to the task, I > recommend blacklisting the in-kernel drivers, compiling and using the > original realtek supplied driver instead. > > Even with rtl8xxxu, you won't get as good as performance as the original > realtek driver and without documentation for the chipsets I can't see that > changing anytime soon. > > > -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/a9670c0b-710f-4142-a18a-46e7cca9f808%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
