Bug#726398: linux: Fail to work with USB wifi dongle TP-Link TL-WN725N V2 (USB id 0bda:8179)

[Steve Cotton <steve@s.cotton.clara.co.uk>]

On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 14:08 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> I just bought a USB wifi dongle and it fail to work with the Linux
> kernel in Debian Stable/Wheezy.  lsusb show this information about the
> device:
> 
>   Bus 001 Device 010: ID 0bda:8179 Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
 
> But I was hoping this dongle would work out of the box with Debian
> stable, or at least with the next stable (Jessie).  Can you add the
> driver to the kernel package to make this happen?

Hi Petter,

That device should work with kernel 3.10, module rtl8188ee.ko.
Upstream commits: f0eb856...8b138d4

> So there is source out there to get this working with
> Linux.  I hope to test it later today.

I think the Jessie kernel will already support it.

Regards,
Steve