Sorry for aksing back. 1. You mean I should get the kernel clean of the realtek driver first to prevent a crash during patching? Cause unplugging is no option for a onboard device. 2. I have no idea what to do with the patching file and couldn't find any good instructions with google. "man patch" doesn't make me smarter at all 2013/2/6 Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: > On 01/26/2013 04:07 PM, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote: >> >> Thomas Rosenkranz wrote: >> >>> 0bda:819a RTL8188CUS WLAN doesn't work out of the box in downstream >>> and upstreamkernel >>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1102179 >> >> >> This should go to <linux-wireless@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> >> Try: >> # modprobe rtl8192cu >> # echo "0bda 819a" > /sys/bus/usb/drivers/rtl8192cu/new_id >> # dmesg (see output) > > > Please install the attached patch, and retry the above method. I fixed the > probe function to get rid of the oops. If the device is really foreign, the > process that writes new_id will not finish until the device is unplugged; > however, the rest of the system is chugging along. > > If 0bda:819a works with rtl8192cu, let me know, and I'll update the USB > device table. > > Larry > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html