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gem

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Registered: 2013-08-08

Posts: 12

Driver for 0bda:8176 Realtek RTL8188CUS WLAN Adapter

Hi there,

I hope you can help me. I just bought a 0bda:8176 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8188CUS 802.11n WLAN Adapter and tried to use it with Kubuntu and Archlinux. Both have the same problem. The device is recognised correctly and Wireless Networks are found, but when trying to connect it fails and asks for password again and again. The driver-install-script from the Realtek-Homepage does not work and exits with errors.

How could I get that one to work?

Cheers,
Gem

skualito

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Registered: 2008-11-19

Posts: 203

Re: Driver for 0bda:8176 Realtek RTL8188CUS WLAN Adapter

Did you install package linux-firmware ? Might be necessary...

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: Driver for 0bda:8176 Realtek RTL8188CUS WLAN Adapter

"it fails" is no good to anyone. Get some usable error info from your journal.

gem

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Registered: 2013-08-08

Posts: 12

Re: Driver for 0bda:8176 Realtek RTL8188CUS WLAN Adapter

It's the driver. The open source one is not working properly and realteks driver works 'til linux 3.9, there is a patch for ubuntu - I'll try to get that one working and post the results here - thanks for looking into this.

Last edited by gem (2013-11-03 00:52:55)

WonderWoofy

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From: Los Gatos, CA

Registered: 2012-05-19

Posts: 8,414

Re: Driver for 0bda:8176 Realtek RTL8188CUS WLAN Adapter

If you did some searching on this, you probably found that the issue you describe was a common issue a few months ago.  But you would have also found that this was apparenlty fixed as of about 3.10.  What kernel are you running? Is your machine up to date?

gem

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Registered: 2013-08-08

Posts: 12

Re: Driver for 0bda:8176 Realtek RTL8188CUS WLAN Adapter

I have Linux 3.11 - and all I could find was, that from 3.10 on, the official driver is not working anymore and the kernel driver isn't working properly.