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

[Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>]

Steve Cotton <steve@s.cotton.clara.co.uk> writes:

> 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.

I doubt that.  r(tl)8188ee is a PCI-E chip and driver.  The USB version
is r(tl)8188eu. See http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/rtl819x
for the full overview.


Bjørn