[PATCH] Alternate rtl8192cu driver.

Greg KH greg at kroah.com
Tue Jul 7 22:36:41 UTC 2015


On Tue, Jul 07, 2015 at 11:37:55PM +0200, P. Varet wrote:
> On 07/07/15 11:54, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> 
> >https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57171
> >
> >This bug is a confusing mix of issues and it seems to be fixed.  Just
> >use network manager.
> 
> Hi Dan! Thank you for your reply!
> 
> I gave it another try, then. The behavior was the same as described before,
> and the device failed to work, as before. That's with kernel 3.19.0 and
> NetworkManager 0.9.10 (both from the latest stable Ubuntu release).
> 
> The last commenter on that bug report appears to have given up on helping
> fix it after finding a version of Realtek's driver patched to work on recent
> kernels... So, what I've been offering. I find myself hoping that my work
> hasn't in fact slowed down the actual bug getting fixed.
> 
> >If there are still an issues we can start a new
> >thread with Larry Finger and linux-wireless in the CC list.
> 
> That would probably help, yes. Thanks, Dan. :)
> 
> In the meanwhile, shouldn't we officially consider the affected devices
> unsupported? I don't very much like the idea of people buying said devices
> in good faith and then realizing that they're in fact not usable on Linux by
> default. (Mind, I have no idea what the proper policy is in those matter.
> Does this suggestion make any sense?)

That doesn't make much sense.  If the device doesn't work properly with
the in-kernel driver, contact the author of it, and the mailing list of
the subsystem, and work with them to resolve the issue.

That's as "supported" as anything is with Linux :)

thanks,

greg k-h


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