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Jose Martinez
Oct 27, 2015, 8:30:07 PM10/27/15
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I recently purchased a USB wifi adapter which has a RealTek RTL8192EU
chip (ID 0bda:818b) in it. A CD came with the wifi adapter which had
drivers for Windows (which worked properly) and purports to have linux
drivers as well. Of course the linux driver has to be compiled.
Following their instructions, and using their install.sh shell script, I
attempted to compile and install the driver. Unfortunately, the
compilation failed (attached is a copy of the output from the
compilation run). I am running Debian 8.2 with kernel 3.16 (sometimes
4.2, though 4.2 seems to have some issues that 3.16 doesn't, but that is
another conversation). I have all the headers installed and can compile
the kernel successfully on the system, so I'm sure it's not a matter of
missing headers/source information. Any assistance, either to get the
distributed driver to compile, or to obtain a driver that does compile
would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
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Que te vaya bien
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chip (ID 0bda:818b) in it. A CD came with the wifi adapter which had
drivers for Windows (which worked properly) and purports to have linux
drivers as well. Of course the linux driver has to be compiled.
Following their instructions, and using their install.sh shell script, I
attempted to compile and install the driver. Unfortunately, the
compilation failed (attached is a copy of the output from the
compilation run). I am running Debian 8.2 with kernel 3.16 (sometimes
4.2, though 4.2 seems to have some issues that 3.16 doesn't, but that is
another conversation). I have all the headers installed and can compile
the kernel successfully on the system, so I'm sure it's not a matter of
missing headers/source information. Any assistance, either to get the
distributed driver to compile, or to obtain a driver that does compile
would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
--
Que te vaya bien
JM
Stephen Powell
Oct 27, 2015, 9:40:04 PM10/27/15
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http://askubuntu.com/questions/619840/rtl8192eu-driver-does-not-work
This is for Ubuntu, not Debian; but perhaps it can be adapted for
Debian.
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Himanshu Shekhar
Oct 28, 2015, 10:40:09 AM10/28/15
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For Realtek drivers, you can checkout one on
Regards
Himanshu Shekhar
IIIT-Allahabad
IRM2015006
Jose Martinez
Oct 29, 2015, 3:40:04 PM10/29/15
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Yea, I had checked that site first, they don't have anything on the
8192EU. In fact, their support for the 8192E is pretty spotty. They
don't have anything for the 8192EE either, which is the PCI version of
the same chip.
I saw drivers for an 8192E and an 8192U both for windows, but nothing
for linux. There are a couple of other versions of the 8192 up there
too, but nothing for the E series.
8192EU. In fact, their support for the 8192E is pretty spotty. They
don't have anything for the 8192EE either, which is the PCI version of
the same chip.
I saw drivers for an 8192E and an 8192U both for windows, but nothing
for linux. There are a couple of other versions of the 8192 up there
too, but nothing for the E series.
Jose Martinez
Oct 29, 2015, 3:50:06 PM10/29/15
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Thanks, that is something that didn't show up in my searching.
I've downloaded the specified deb file. As it is a dkms, I expect that
it will compile OK for debian as well....we shall see!!
I sure appreciate the info. The internal B43 wireless on my laptop does
not play nicely with the b43legacy driver and locks up fairly
frequently, and has limited data rates. (the b43 driver doesn't work at
all). This seems to be a pretty common problem, as I've run across it
mentioned on several sites. So, I thought I'd get something that was
less problematic.....alas and alack the solution seems to have its own
issues!!
I've downloaded the specified deb file. As it is a dkms, I expect that
it will compile OK for debian as well....we shall see!!
I sure appreciate the info. The internal B43 wireless on my laptop does
not play nicely with the b43legacy driver and locks up fairly
frequently, and has limited data rates. (the b43 driver doesn't work at
all). This seems to be a pretty common problem, as I've run across it
mentioned on several sites. So, I thought I'd get something that was
less problematic.....alas and alack the solution seems to have its own
issues!!
Stephen Powell
Oct 30, 2015, 7:10:05 AM10/30/15
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On Thu, 29 Oct 2015 15:43:51 -0400 (EDT), Jose Martinez wrote:
>
> I sure appreciate the info. The internal B43 wireless on my laptop does
> not play nicely with the b43legacy driver and locks up fairly
> frequently, and has limited data rates. (the b43 driver doesn't work at
> all). This seems to be a pretty common problem, as I've run across it
> mentioned on several sites. So, I thought I'd get something that was
> less problematic.....alas and alack the solution seems to have its own
> issues!!
In Debian, the driver and the firmware are separate. Make sure you have
>
> I sure appreciate the info. The internal B43 wireless on my laptop does
> not play nicely with the b43legacy driver and locks up fairly
> frequently, and has limited data rates. (the b43 driver doesn't work at
> all). This seems to be a pretty common problem, as I've run across it
> mentioned on several sites. So, I thought I'd get something that was
> less problematic.....alas and alack the solution seems to have its own
> issues!!
the firmware installed also. Usually, you can detect missing firmware
with
dmesg|less
and search for the string "firmware" (without the quotes). See if there
are any error messages regarding the attempt to load firmware. You will
need Debian package firmware-b43legacy-installer or firmware-b43-installer,
depending on which chipset is built in. firmware-b43legacy-installer is
needed for chipsets BCM4301, BCM4306/2, or BCM4306.
firmware-b43-installer is used for chipets BCM4306/3, BCM4311, BCM4318,
BCM4321, BCM4322 (only 14e4:432b), or BCM4312 (with Low-Power a.k.a. LP-PHY).
Make sure that you have the contrib and the non-free sections of the
archive enabled in /etc/apt/sources.list, as this involves non-free stuff.
Eduard Bloch
Oct 30, 2015, 1:40:04 PM10/30/15
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Hallo,
* Jose Martinez [Thu, Oct 29 2015, 02:38:04PM]:
the staging area. The driver has been in the mainline for a while, the
normal Debian kernel should support it. You also need to install the a
recent firmware-realtek package.
Regards,
Eduard.
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* Jose Martinez [Thu, Oct 29 2015, 02:38:04PM]:
> Yea, I had checked that site first, they don't have anything on the
> 8192EU. In fact, their support for the 8192E is pretty spotty. They
> don't have anything for the 8192EE either, which is the PCI version of
> the same chip.
>
> I saw drivers for an 8192E and an 8192U both for windows, but nothing
> for linux. There are a couple of other versions of the 8192 up there
> too, but nothing for the E series.
RTL8192EU/RTL8188EUS is supported by recent kernels with a driver from
> 8192EU. In fact, their support for the 8192E is pretty spotty. They
> don't have anything for the 8192EE either, which is the PCI version of
> the same chip.
>
> I saw drivers for an 8192E and an 8192U both for windows, but nothing
> for linux. There are a couple of other versions of the 8192 up there
> too, but nothing for the E series.
the staging area. The driver has been in the mainline for a while, the
normal Debian kernel should support it. You also need to install the a
recent firmware-realtek package.
Regards,
Eduard.
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<Joey> Das wurde vom User Joey angelegt, das ist keine
Applikation, der darf das.
Jose Martinez
Oct 31, 2015, 2:40:05 PM10/31/15
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On Tue, 2015-10-27 at 21:32 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote:
there. This is an Ubuntu package, so there were a couple of issues in
getting it installed -- The Ubuntu package name for the linux header
files is different than the Debian package name so dpkg failed on
dependencies. Nevertheless, I bypassed the normal package system (bad
thing to do under most circumstances), and unpacked the .deb file and
manually moved the files to the appropriate places and ran the postinst
configuration script manually. The driver compiled and installed just
fine, and I am now using the RealTek usb adapter as I write this. My
data rates went up 10 fold on my home network and haven't had a network
failure since.
Thanks to all who responded to my request. All the information was
helpful.
Jose Martinez
Oct 31, 2015, 2:50:04 PM10/31/15
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apparently now main-line, though it wasn't when I installed it) and the
firmware package (via the fwcutter package). The legacy Broadcom B4306
I have does work with these packages most of the time. However, the
data rates are extremely slow, and on occasion, the transmitter
completely drops out. I've looked at the kernel error messages that
result when this happens, and it involves receiving unexpected values.
Usually multiple times, until it simply gives up. When this happens, I
can usually turn the interface off and back on again and it will connect
back up and be fine for a while. Sometimes that does not work, and I
modprobe -r the b43legacy driver and then re-load the driver and it will
come up. On rare occasion, even that won't work, and I have to
completely reboot the system.
I got tired of that situation and bought the RealTek USB WIFI, which is
now working and making life a whole lot easier!! :)
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