Hi all-
Sorry for yet another realtek wifi usb question, but it seems distinct enough from the rest...

Moved from Ubuntu 12 to Debian 6- couldn't take Unity and the Amazon suggestions in Software Center anymore.

Wireless USB card worked out of box on ubuntu.

Net install says needs "trl8168d-2.fw" Supplied it- get past search for HW, but chokes on DHCP- nevers asks for SSID (disabled WPA to simplify)

Installed via hardline nic no problems.

Installed firmware-realtek; nothing seems to work though.

lsmod returns:
Bus 002 Device 007: ID 050d:945a Belkin Components F7D1101 Basic Wireless USB Adapter v1000 [Realtek RTL8188SU]

From wiki/others, can see this should be R8192. Modprobed r8192s_usb; shows up in lsmod as:
# lsmod | grep "r8192"
r8192s_usb 292173 0
usbcore 123399 6 ndiswrapper,r8192s_usb,usb_storage,usbhid,ehci_h

(At first no ndiswrapper b/c tried before I installed that.)

Installed ndiswrapper with XP driver, ndiswrapper -l gives:

net8192su : driver installed
device (050D:945A) present

But nothing on iwconfig. lsmod shows ndiswrapper:
# lsmod | grep "ndis"
ndiswrapper 189306 0
usbcore 123399 6 ndiswrapper,r8192s_usb,usb_storage,usbhid,ehci_h


Verified firmware in /lib64/firmware/rtlwifi, etc. Modprobe for anything other than 8192 one returns FATAL: not found, but maybe I don't knwo the correct driver name. See some indications that 8712 shoudl supercede 8192.

Tried realtek drive compile- gets almost through and throws:
... "_usb_linux_v2.6.6.0.20120405/os_dep/linux/ioctl_cfg80211.c:2293: error: ‘struct wiphy’ has no member named ‘max_num_pmkids’"

Then shows an ERROR 1, and then an ERROR 2 and bails. Tried editing the Makefile- seems primed for i386 with no AMD64, but modifications there did nothing.

At my wit's end on this one; especially since it worked in U12.

Thoughts?

Thanks,
-Vince

first off that device is what I use and is built into the kernel not sure why you decided to use a ndiswrapper when that is a native kernel module.
be honest I don't run Debian . I wonder if that module and firmware was not configured in there kernel build hard to believe that has been a great linux wifi device for me through the years.

Right- I used it in Ubuntu with no issues for a long time myself. Don't like to use ndiswrapper either, but as I said, tried the kernel modules first and got nowhere. Really don't want to have to recompile the kernel- especially since usually have to recompile with each new release at that point- but tend to agree that maybe the kernel isn't supporting it. But the R8192s_usb did modprobe.

Any other thoughts out there?

this happened to me on RC 13.37 strange I actually had to recompile the kernel seems the firmare did not stage for it. but was ok for 13.37 release.
I didn't see anyone else bring it up and 13.37 went stable had no problem.
wonders what your dmesg out put is at boot when you do not use the wrapper.