I have a USB wifi adapter based on the subject chipset. Debian Linux for its new release (9.x) incorporates version 4.9 of the kernel, which does not work with the existing driver for this USB wifi adapter. The driver for it (under Debian 8.x) shows as "r8712U". There's a movement afoot to update the driver.
Any idea when an updated driver (or a wide beta restoring *some* functionality) could be expected?
