Re: RealTek RTL8192EU drivers
On Thu, 29 Oct 2015 15:43:51 -0400 (EDT), Jose Martinez wrote:
>
> I sure appreciate the info. The internal B43 wireless on my laptop does
> not play nicely with the b43legacy driver and locks up fairly
> frequently, and has limited data rates. (the b43 driver doesn't work at
> all). This seems to be a pretty common problem, as I've run across it
> mentioned on several sites. So, I thought I'd get something that was
> less problematic.....alas and alack the solution seems to have its own
> issues!!
In Debian, the driver and the firmware are separate. Make sure you have
the firmware installed also. Usually, you can detect missing firmware
with
dmesg|less
and search for the string "firmware" (without the quotes). See if there
are any error messages regarding the attempt to load firmware. You will
need Debian package firmware-b43legacy-installer or firmware-b43-installer,
depending on which chipset is built in. firmware-b43legacy-installer is
needed for chipsets BCM4301, BCM4306/2, or BCM4306.
firmware-b43-installer is used for chipets BCM4306/3, BCM4311, BCM4318,
BCM4321, BCM4322 (only 14e4:432b), or BCM4312 (with Low-Power a.k.a. LP-PHY).
Make sure that you have the contrib and the non-free sections of the
archive enabled in /etc/apt/sources.list, as this involves non-free stuff.
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