On Sun, 22 Mar 2015 09:01:03 +0000 Mick <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. Where do I have to use "modinfo". Can you give an example. From my research, that is exactly the power management which powers down the buggy drivers, but I don't know what what are these module options which will prevent to power the card down. > > -- > Regards, > Mick --
