It took a while in my case, with a Realtek device, but in the end I managed to make it work.
The author was actually still developing the driver at the time and I was applying his patches as soon as he was publishing them in the kernel mailing list ( for which there is an archive in http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless ) In the end it was an enlightening experience so I recommend that you persevere and don't give up. As soon as you see something like this in dmesg you should be ok to continue with the rest and get wpa_supplicant (and dhcpcd if needed) working. Follow the instructions from the book, don't just assume the packages will work the same way as in other distros. [ 2.900052] usb 1-1: default language 0x0409 [ 2.900804] usb 1-1: udev 2, busnum 1, minor = 1 [ 2.900809] usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=0bda, idProduct=8176 [ 2.903347] usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 [ 2.905857] usb 1-1: Product: 802.11n WLAN Adapter [ 2.908347] usb 1-1: Manufacturer: Realtek [ 2.910813] usb 1-1: SerialNumber: 00e04c000001 [ 2.913479] usb 1-1: usb_probe_device [ 2.913486] usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice [ 2.913684] usb 1-1: adding 1-1:1.0 (config #1, interface 0) [ 2.913763] rtl8192cu 1-1:1.0: usb_probe_interface [ 2.913769] rtl8192cu 1-1:1.0: usb_probe_interface - got id [ 2.913925] rtl8192cu: Chip version 0x10 [ 2.993926] rtl8192cu: MAC address: 00:13:ef:83:05:7b [ 2.996376] rtl8192cu: Board Type 0 [ 2.999052] rtlwifi: rx_max_size 15360, rx_urb_num 8, in_ep 1 [ 3.001607] rtl8192cu: Loading firmware rtlwifi/rtl8192cufw_TMSC.bin -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [lfs-support] wifi issues From: spiky <[email protected]> Date: Wed, May 07, 2014 10:11 pm To: [email protected] On 07/05/14 19:41, hans kaper wrote: > Op Mon, 05 May 2014 06:07:54 +0200 schreef Bruce Dubbs > <[email protected]>: > >> David wrote: >>> I'm hoping that someone can help me configure the wifi in my laptop. > >> >> I think getting wifi up is one of the more difficult tasks we have. > > I tried it some time ago and gave up. Did someone active on this site > ever solved this problem? > If not, I am willing to give it another try if someone out there will > help me through the > principles and the details, with a new Hint as a result (because the > old one is rather out of date). > > > Hans. Read this page regards to your wireless device http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/iwlwifi You should be able to build the kernel and install firmware from that -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
