Comment 341 for bug 902557

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Koen Roggemans (koen-roggemans) wrote : Re: 10ec:8176 Wireless not working in 12.04 for rtl8192ce (RTL8188CE)

Hi Sirius,
I read through the thread again and for what I found, there is a patch that went 1/04/2013 in kernel git for kernel 3.2 and then patches that apply to kernel 3.11 that are too difficult to backport to earlier kernels.
At the moment I'm testing the ones that went in on 1/04/2013 with linux-firmware that finally made it in proposed.

Very subjective observation: it works better then whit the manufacturers driver (0007 and 0012). I find it hard to come up with a testsetup and a way to collect reproducable results. I only had one moment when the speed dropped badly and that could have been due to my desk standing full of working laptops.

I tested it up to now with 3 AP's: linksys wrt54gs, linksys wap200 and unifi pro. It works fine on all 3, except with the unifi I get a weird message in dmesg of the client: No basic rates in AssocResp. Using min supported rate instead. The speed seems ok though. Going to ask the unifi guys why that message shows up on their equipment.