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Re: RealTek RTL8192EU drivers

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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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Re: RealTek RTL8192EU drivers Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@wowway.com> - 2015-10-28 02:40 +0100
  Re: RealTek RTL8192EU drivers Himanshu Shekhar <irm2015006@iiita.ac.in> - 2015-10-28 15:40 +0100
    Re: RealTek RTL8192EU drivers Jose Martinez <jomartinez812@gmail.com> - 2015-10-29 20:40 +0100
      Re: RealTek RTL8192EU drivers Eduard Bloch <edi@gmx.de> - 2015-10-30 18:40 +0100
  Re: RealTek RTL8192EU drivers Jose Martinez <jomartinez812@gmail.com> - 2015-10-29 20:50 +0100
    Re: RealTek RTL8192EU drivers Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@wowway.com> - 2015-10-30 12:10 +0100
      Re: RealTek RTL8192EU drivers Jose Martinez <jomartinez812@gmail.com> - 2015-10-31 19:50 +0100
  Re: [Solved] RealTek RTL8192EU drivers Jose Martinez <jomartinez812@gmail.com> - 2015-10-31 19:40 +0100

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