On 2019-10-01 11:47:44 [-0500], Larry Finger wrote: > A quick Internet search shows me that the RTL8188FU is a low-cost chip used > on Raspberry PI and other similar low-cost systems. > > The USB group at Realtek is notorious for their lack of support for Linux > drivers. The ones they release have lots of dead code used for Windows and > FreeBSD drivers, and they have lots of code that applies to other chips. > With other drivers that I have placed at GitHub, some of the commits that > remove dead code will remove as many of 10K lines. yeah, seen that. > You should be able to find the code that differs between 8188EU and 8188FU > to see what is different. So you would recommend to try to merge it to the staging driver. > The 8188RU is a special variant of the 8188EU. I have no idea what an 8188CU is. > > Your only starting point is the driver that is next to you! Thank you for your reply. > Larry Sebastian
