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Online ovacikar

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Hello all.

I have concluded my RTL8192CU issues with newer picore releases are all caused by newer driver. I need to port the exact 11.x driver / firmware to a recent picore release 13.1 or later

In Mesh wifi networks where a single Access Point name is served by multiple base stations, the performance / stability of the recent driver is very poor, it even takes multiple  attempts to connect. I gave up troubleshooting new picore versions at this point.

The working driver from 11.x shows Link Quality between 0-100, where the bad new drivers show a 0-70 scale. So the one in use in 11.x is definitely a different driver.

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Linux pi 4.19.81-piCore #1 Sun Nov 3 14:08:10 UTC 2019 armv6l GNU/Linux


wlan0     IEEE 802.11bgn  ESSID:"redacted "  Nickname:"<WIFI@REALTEK>"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.462 GHz  Access Point: XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
          Bit Rate:72.2 Mb/s   Sensitivity:0/0
          Retry:off   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=100/100  Signal level=94/100  Noise level=0/100
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
 modinfo 8192cu
filename:       /lib/modules/4.19.81-piCore/kernel.tclocal/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl8192cu/8192cu.ko

author:         Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
description:    Realtek Wireless Lan Driver
license:        GPL
parm:           rtw_notch_filter:0:Disable, 1:Enable, 2:Enable only for P2P
parm:           rtw_force_iol:Force to enable IOL
parm:           rtw_max_roaming_times:The max roaming times to try
parm:           if2name:The default name to allocate for second interface
parm:           ifname:The default name to allocate for first interface
parm:           rtw_ips_mode:The default IPS mode
version:        v4.0.2_9000.20130911
« Last Edit: Today at 11:02:30 AM by ovacikar »

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Re: Need the port the RTL8192CU wifi driver from Picore 11.x
« Reply #1 on: Today at 11:44:34 AM »
Hi ovacikar
I just looked at the kernel sources on my TC10 system
and the RTL8192CU has its own subdirectory:
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linux-4.19.10/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8192cu/You might get away with copying that directory from piCore 11.x source
and use it to replace that directory in a later source package.

Then recompile.