[Resolved] Re: 64bit Linux drivers for wireless-n obda:8192

[NoOp]

On 11/17/2010 05:30 PM, Tarun Khanna wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Tapas Mishra <mightydreams at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 11:09 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>
>> > Perhaps using these might be of help:
>> > <http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1522815>
>> Tarun the above link by NoOp sound appealing to me try it and post the
>> result.
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> 
> :), it finally worked !!!. I had to follow the instructions here
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1522815 but with some tweaks. My
> problem was kind of reverse of everyone else's. My card reported a device id
> of obda:8192, however it did NOT work with r8192s_usb or r8192_usb drivers.
> My card works fine with 8712u. I had the 8712u drivers from before when
> Realtek had emailed them to me.
> 
> I changed /etc/modprobe.d/network_drivers.conf to contain the following ...
> install 8712u /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install 8712u $CMDLINE_OPTS; /bin/echo
> "0bda 8192" > /sys/bus/usb/drivers/r871x_usb_drv/new_id
> 
> and
> 
> changed /etc/udev/rules.d/network_drivers.rules to contain the following ...
> ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="0bda",
> ATTR{idProduct}=="8192", RUN+="/sbin/modprobe -qba 8712u"
> 
> As you can see that I had to trick the kernel into associating 8712u with
> 0bda:8192. Simply loading 8712u with modprobe didn't do the trick, the above
> changes were necessary. Of course I had to blacklist r8192u_usb too.
> 
> Thanks all for your help.
> 
> Tarun

Cool! Glad you got it to work. However, as I said previously; it
shouldn't be that hard for a user. You might want to add to one of those
bug reports. Unfortunatly I'm not sure which one is best.