Re: [gentoo-user] RTL8192CU

2015-03-22 Thread German
On Sun, 22 Mar 2015 10:26:09 + Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 22 Mar 2015 05:19:41 German wrote: On Sun, 22 Mar 2015 09:01:03 + Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: In addidion, use modinfo to find out what parameters the particular module has and add these

Re: [gentoo-user] RTL8192CU

2015-03-22 Thread Mick
On Sunday 22 Mar 2015 05:19:41 German wrote: On Sun, 22 Mar 2015 09:01:03 + Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] RTL8192CU

2015-03-22 Thread Mick
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

Re: [gentoo-user] RTL8192CU

2015-03-22 Thread German
On Sun, 22 Mar 2015 09:01:03 + Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com 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

Re: [gentoo-user] RTL8192CU

2015-03-21 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
Was the firmware for the driver in question installed as well? What's the output of 'lspci -k' and 'lsusb -v' for your device? On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 7:42 PM, German gentger...@gmail.com wrote: Today I've bought a new USB wi-fi adapter which has rtl8192cu chip. I've plugged it into my

Re: [gentoo-user] RTL8192CU

2015-03-21 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 10:36 AM, Alexander Kapshuk alexander.kaps...@gmail.com 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? On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 7:42 PM, German gentger...@gmail.com wrote: Today

Re: [gentoo-user] RTL8192CU

2015-03-21 Thread German
On Sat, 21 Mar 2015 10:36:08 +0200 Alexander Kapshuk alexander.kaps...@gmail.com 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

Re: [gentoo-user] RTL8192CU

2015-03-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
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

[gentoo-user] RTL8192CU

2015-03-19 Thread German
Today I've bought a new USB wi-fi adapter which has rtl8192cu chip. I've plugged it into my lubuntu computer and it worked out of the box, however soon it drops the connection. I googled it and found out that many people have the same problem with this chip ( but mostly with *buntu flavours). I

Re: [gentoo-user] RTL8192CU

2015-03-19 Thread Ralf
Hi, I had a rtl8192ce in my laptop. Nothing but problems with Linux. Don't know why, but the signal strength always was much better when using Windows. For me, the rtl8192ce only worked when using it as a module, not hard compiled in the kernel. Second, it is important to know that this WiFi