Hello, On Sunday, December 22, 2013 05:58:12 PM Scott S wrote: > I'm no guru or developer, so please bear with me. That's fine. > I'm looking for a better driver for a Rosewill RNX-N180UBE USB wifi on > 64-bit Linux Mint 13 (Ubuntu 12LTS Kernel 3.2.0-23) the Ubuntu driver > is junk+10. in what way is it junk? Is it crashing/misbehaving, does it lack important features, is the wifi connection unstable, or is something else bothering you? > I found your site from here: > > http://wikidevi.com/wiki/Rosewill_RNX-N180UBE > it says your driver is under development... ?? Yes, you are referring to "r92su". > but you have a compile ready source...? Yes, the source is available from <https://github.com/chunkeey/rtl8192su>. However this driver is for 3.10+ kernels. AFICT there are no ready [plans for] backports of the driver for an older kernel version. If you are interested in the state and future of r92su you can find some information in this thread: <http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-wireless/msg114213.html> <http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-wireless/msg114215.html> TL;DR: r92su is doomed too. > Just wonder if you can tell me if it will work, or should I use the > older one listed there? (r8712u) > > Or what? Oh, you can help with the rtl8192su-mac80211 driver rewrite. This would certainly make a difference :-D. Anything other than that: no, not that I know. Regards, Christian -- 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
