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sorsarre The day is coming to a close. Still — no luck with awful TP-Link drivers based on awful MediaTek drivers based on awful Ralink drivers. No luck at all, not not even with MediaTek drivers themselves.
I have to admit that for a company supplying chips for half the contemporary USB WiFi dongles, they are doing one hell of a poor job with the drivers, at least if we are talking about Linux.
Either it doesn't compile with anything newer than 3.16.0 (not even 3.18), or it does, but without P2P, or it does P2P but WiDi part depends on code that simply isn't there. Or all is well and good, but for an entirely different chip family and even that comes with a few hours of patching around to bring it up to date with kernel API. What a miraculous crap and definitely a waste of time, no less miraculous. I hope RealTek does better than this. Either that or I'll have to get a soldering station to solder around the faulty power chip to get the onboard WiFi working — thank goodness I have the right drivers for that one out of the box.
Even more intriguing, though, is the fact that there are relatively few dongles out there based on Broadcom chips. Never had any issues with those.
I have to admit that for a company supplying chips for half the contemporary USB WiFi dongles, they are doing one hell of a poor job with the drivers, at least if we are talking about Linux.
Either it doesn't compile with anything newer than 3.16.0 (not even 3.18), or it does, but without P2P, or it does P2P but WiDi part depends on code that simply isn't there. Or all is well and good, but for an entirely different chip family and even that comes with a few hours of patching around to bring it up to date with kernel API. What a miraculous crap and definitely a waste of time, no less miraculous. I hope RealTek does better than this. Either that or I'll have to get a soldering station to solder around the faulty power chip to get the onboard WiFi working — thank goodness I have the right drivers for that one out of the box.
Even more intriguing, though, is the fact that there are relatively few dongles out there based on Broadcom chips. Never had any issues with those.
