On 05/06/2011 07:13 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
I recently got a cheap usb wi-fi dongle I would love to get working as an access point. I see the driver table on the linux wireless website has question marks on most of the columns in the row for the r8192cu. Anything I can do to help fill in "yes" in those columns? Here's my experience and findings so far: http://home.comcast.net/~tomhorsley/hardware/rtl8192cu/rtl8192cu.html I'm currently working on fedora 14 with the 2.6.35 kernel fedora ships. Might I have more luck with a later kernel.org kernel?
You don't necessarily need a newer kernel, just install the compat-wireless package. I'm not a Fedora user, so I don't know the exact details, but I'm reasonably certain one exists. If not, you can always get the compat-wireless sources from http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Download.
The Linux driver for this chip is rtl8192cu and it became part of the mainline kernel with 2.6.39, which is the current mainline kernel and at 2.6.39-rc6. As it is not yet "stable", you might not want to run it, but the package noted above will have the same code for this device.
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