[fedora-arm] Realtek wifi on ARM devices

[Zamir SUN]

Here are my test result:

System: Fedora 23 ARM XFCE image (configured as multi-user.target)
Hardware: BeagleBone Black Rev.C

---Device 1: EDUP EP-N8508GS---
lsusb:
Bus 002 Device 006: ID 0bda:8176 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8188CUS 
802.11n WLAN Adapter

Fails to connect to WPA2-PSK protected WiFi.
Connected to open wifi but not able to ping to default gateway

https://paste.fedoraproject.org/287939/14469065/

---Device 2: Netcore (I do not have its branded product name)---
lsusb:
Bus 002 Device 005: ID 0bda:8178 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8192CU 
802.11n WLAN Adapter

Fails to connect to WPA2-PSK protectes WiFi.
Connected to open wifi and able to download for about 1 minute, then the 
network becomes not usable.

https://paste.fedoraproject.org/287943/44690690/


HTH.

Zamir SUN


On 11/07/2015 08:01 PM, Peter Robinson wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I know from various questions in the past that a number of ARM devices
> come with realtek wifi interfaces. A new driver the a lot of the
> realtek usb wifi devices has landed in the 4.4 kernel. All the gory
> details are in the commit log [1] it's not a fully featured driver
> just yet but should work well for the standard connect to your AP use
> case.
>
>   It would be great if those of you with such devices could test a
> rawhide kernel and report back good and/or bad experiences.
>
> Cheers,
> Peter
>
> [1] http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=26f1fad29ad973b0fb26a9ca3dcb2a73dde781aa
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