Petter Reinholdtsen <p...@hungry.com> writes:

> I just bought a USB wifi dongle and it fail to work with the Linux
> kernel in Debian Stable/Wheezy.  lsusb show this information about the
> device:
>
>   Bus 001 Device 010: ID 0bda:8179 Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
>
> A similar device is mentioned in <URL: http://bugs.debian.org/584945/ >,
> which was reported solved a while back.  I suspect this was version 1 of
> the dongle, using a different chipset.
>
> According to <URL: http://www.elinux.org/RPi_USB_Wi-Fi_Adapters >
> version 1 of the TL-WN725N dongle should work out of the box in Linux,
> while version 2 require manual driver installation, see
> <URL: http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=29752 > for
> the details.  So there is source out there to get this working with
> Linux.  I hope to test it later today.

Just FYI:  This driver is also in staging, starting with v3.12-rc1:
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu


Bjørn


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