rtl8188eu not working with newer versions of wpa_supplicant

lwfinger / rtl8188eu

Repository for stand-alone RTL8188EU driver.

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rtl8188eu not working with newer versions of wpa_supplicant #197

Open dje4321 opened 7 years ago

dje4321 commented 7 years ago

rtl8188eu driver is incompatible with wpa_supplicant-1:2.6.1.fc25. wpa_supplicant-1:2.5-5.fc24 seems to make these issues go away. I am running fedora 25 on kernel 4.9.7-201.fc25

Some of the issues i have encountered is that the chipset does not turn on until you specify a network to connect to via something like the hidden network menu. It will also will randomly drop connections and has a hard time trying to reconnect to the access point

netllama commented 7 years ago

The real problem is fully documented here: http://www.thelinuxrain.com/articles/getting-realtek-8188eu-wireless-adapters-to-work-in-linux-and-possibly-other-wireless-realtek-chipsets

In short, the (sub) driver that rtl8188eu requires to talk with wpa_supplicant (wext) is now deprecated, and NetworkManager apparently ignores all attempts to use wext. The only good long term solution is for rtl8188eu to become compatible with the modern 'nl80211' wpa_supplicant driver.