I want to make this short and sweet, but I'm not sure it's possible. I think the best thing I can do is explain to you guys what I've done to try and resolve this issue.
The issue is that the rtl8192cu driver that is included in the kernel is completely junk. It does not work at all. After googling for hours I found nothing but people saying that they couldnt get it to work. I did not find a single instance anywhere from anyone that made the claim that this driver worked for them. Matter of fact every single thread I read was people that had problems with it and never found a solution. Excuse my language, but there is no fucking way that this driver should be allowed in the kernel. If code of this quality is making it into the kernel then that is real bad news. It spells doom. It's really that bad.
It is the single worst driver I've ever had to try to use for any operating system. period.
Soooo, as it turns out realtek has an official driver on there web site that supports this hardware and it's even licensed GPLv2. Apparently it has no relation to the driver that is currently in kernel as it was developed independently by realtek themselves. Unfortunately realtek hasnt been keeping it updated to work with the newest kernels. But there is a guy on the web that managed to make it work for himself and posted his work on github. https://github.com/dz0ny/rt8192cu
So Installed that driver. Now the problem that I'm having is iwconfig says that wlan0 has no wireless extensions. The driver compiled fine and modprobed fine but without wireless extensions I can't do anything with it.
So when iwconfig says wlan0 no wireless extensions, what would be the next step in trying to troubleshoot? What should I do from here?
This has got to be one of the worst hardware purchases I've ever made.
The issue is that the rtl8192cu driver that is included in the kernel is completely junk. It does not work at all. After googling for hours I found nothing but people saying that they couldnt get it to work. I did not find a single instance anywhere from anyone that made the claim that this driver worked for them. Matter of fact every single thread I read was people that had problems with it and never found a solution. Excuse my language, but there is no fucking way that this driver should be allowed in the kernel. If code of this quality is making it into the kernel then that is real bad news. It spells doom. It's really that bad.
It is the single worst driver I've ever had to try to use for any operating system. period.
Soooo, as it turns out realtek has an official driver on there web site that supports this hardware and it's even licensed GPLv2. Apparently it has no relation to the driver that is currently in kernel as it was developed independently by realtek themselves. Unfortunately realtek hasnt been keeping it updated to work with the newest kernels. But there is a guy on the web that managed to make it work for himself and posted his work on github. https://github.com/dz0ny/rt8192cu
So Installed that driver. Now the problem that I'm having is iwconfig says that wlan0 has no wireless extensions. The driver compiled fine and modprobed fine but without wireless extensions I can't do anything with it.
So when iwconfig says wlan0 no wireless extensions, what would be the next step in trying to troubleshoot? What should I do from here?
This has got to be one of the worst hardware purchases I've ever made.
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