Fw: rtl8192eu driver

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On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 10:30 PM, Bob Marcan <bob.marcan at lnx.no-ip.org>
wrote:

> Obviously we should avoid this chip.
> BR, Bob
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2014 11:21:40 -0600
> From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net>
> To: Bob Marcan <bob.marcan at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: rtl8192eu driver
>
>
> On 11/07/2014 10:30 AM, Bob Marcan wrote:
> > Hi.
> > Driver for this chip is not (anymore?) available on the vendor site.
> > At least not on the official download page.
> > But it is available on the net.
> > This is the one which i use on the Fedora 20:
> >
> http://users.telenet.be/x86_64/RPMs/dkms-rtl8192eu-4.3.1.1-11320.20140505.src.rpm
> > Does this chip can be included  in  the mainstream?
>
> I do not have any copies of a device with the RTL8192EU chip, thus I
> would not be able to test any driver. In addition, I have had much
> negative feedback from users, and little support from the Realtek USB
> group. For those reasons, I will never work on another Realtek USB
> driver that does not use mac80211.
>
> Perhaps someone else will take that driver, work for hundreds of hours
> to get it into a form that is acceptable for kernel inclusion, submit
> it, and then maintain it. I can assure you that I am not the person to
> do so.
>
> Larry
>
>
>

At least it is good to know.
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