On 03/11/13 21:50, Devin Ceartas wrote:
> I was disappointed to find the (admittedly cheap) adapter I bought for this
> gifted Acer AspireOne didn't work. I already new the on-board wireless
> chipset wasn't going to work, and I saw this review:
> http://www.amazon.com/review/R20NYPJH13BJ8X for a USB wireless adapter.
>
> See the last lines of the dmesg below. Also, attempts to set the nwid and
> then use dhclient just give me a "no link" message.
>From rsu(4):
FILES
The driver needs at least version 1.1 of the following firmware file,
which is loaded when an interface is attached:
/etc/firmware/rsu-rtl8712fw
A prepackaged version of the firmware can be installed using
fw_update(1).
It seems you are missing this.
/Alexander
