On Saturday 21 Mar 2015 10:10:56 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Mar 2015 06:00:24 -0400, German wrote:
> > > Was the firmware for the driver in question installed as well?
> > > 
> > > What's the output of 'lspci -k' and 'lsusb -v' for your device?
> > 
> > It works, so yes, firmare is installed. Module's name is rtl8192cu. It
> > just drops the connection after a while, this is a problem
> 
> You cannot assume that because it works, the firmware is there. The RTL
> NIC in my Asus Vivo Mini MythTV frontend complained about missing
> firmware at boot, but it still worked. Check dmesg, you may need firmware
> to fix your problems.

+1

In addidion, use modinfo to find out what parameters the particular module has 
and add these when you modprobe to switch off power management - which on 
buggy drivers tends to power down the card.

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Regards,
Mick

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