Hi Jes, Thanks for the info. Ok, so I assume I just Google how to bring/compile a newer "unreleased" driver into a previous kernel version. Do I just need my current kernel's headers and typical GCC build toolchain? This is for Debian 7.9 on the ARM based BeagleBone Black board (Texas Instruments Sitara AM3358 CPU), which I uses kernel v3.8.13-bone79. I'm asking in case there's a big difference between kernel 3 to 4 for this type of driver to be compiled. I'm pretty sure certain kernel customisations were added by Robert Nelson for this board (I think he is quite involved with porting/fixing stuff for this board and the raspberry pi) , so I don't know how easy it would be for me to use a version 4 kernel. Thanks, Fisher On 11 May 2016 06:51, "Jes Sorensen" <Jes.Sorensen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Fisher Grubb <fisher.grubb@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > Hi Xose, > > > > I'm not sure, I have the latest version of Ubuntu on my laptop and I > > had to use the DKMS -2 deb file to get it working as no driver claimed > > it. > > > > After Googeling (especially for the 0bda:818b USB device and vendor > > ID), it seemed the driver supported most of Realtek's WiFi devices but > > mine wasn't listed. > > > > From memory, I used this page mainly when I was first checking: > > https://wiki.debian.org/rtl819x > > > > I didn't see any people in forums mentioning how they managed to get > > this standard driver working, they all seemed to either have no luck > > because code didn't compile, or link to source code that did compile. > > > > If that mainline driver does work, then I assume there could be some > > USB vendor and device IDs that it doesn't cover. > > > > Here's the link for where I bought it: > > http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/181860888357 > > Patches to add rtl8192eu support was pulled into wireless-drivers-next > recently and scheduled for the 4.7 kernel. It is not in Linus' tree > yet. You should be able to try it out by either building Kalle's > wireless-drivers-next or my rtl8xxxu-devel branch. > > The Realtek 8192EU driver you referenced is not scheduled to get pulled > into the upstream Linux kernel. > > Cheers, > Jes -- 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
