Network Manager has proven to be not so reliable with this device, either. The connection has either "dropped" or failed to connect on boot three times in the last four days. A reboot seems to be the only way to get the connection back when this happens. I don't recall this happening even once with Mageia 1.

Next I will try using a USB extension so I can move the device around a little, and see if I can find a position where it's more stable.

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Thanks all :-D

Sorry I didn't get back with an update. But then, nobody asked for one before this. It seemed as if the bug was pretty much being ignored.

Using an extension to move the antenna to a better location seems to have eliminated the problems with using networkmanager to make the connection. Connections have been stable since I did this. 

However, it did nothing to help with the drakx tools. A new trial resulted in the same symptoms. 

Since getting a stable connection, I went on to other things. This is my secondary computer, and while I don't use it regularly I have used it several times over the last few months. 

But, I have not used the drakx tools with this computer since March. If there has been an update since then, I haven't tried it.

There have been some similar problems with that driver:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=866786
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/869530
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/852190
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-backports-modules-3.0.0/+bug/862684

Luckily, it is working for you :-)

Be aware of these problems if it happens to you again with a newer kernel. Instead of using the driver that it's in mainstream kernel, the driver from Realtek website fixes these problems.

CC: (none) => samuel_ig

Pls. se my supplemnt under Bug 8754.

Forgot to state:

M3 is _x64, and the LAN card is an RTL8192cu labelled 802.11n WLAN adapter in Mageia Control Center.

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Hi Manuel,

The problem is still present in M4 Cauldron _x64.
I still havn't got my 8192cu WLAN adapter connected ...
The fix may be to adapt the newest 8192cu (cu !) driver from RealTech ?

Can someone make sure, that the bugreport continues to the M4 platform also ?

Thx in advance/René
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Hardware: i586 => x86_64
Version: 2 => Cauldron

*** Bug 8754 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Reported fixed in Cauldron in bug #11929

CC: (none) => thierry.vignaud

(In reply to Thierry Vignaud from comment #9)
Then should we push a update for Mga3 and see if it is fixed?

Unfortunately, I am back to square one.
My 8192cu will (agin) not connect whatsoever.
Albeit it has been working for a short while - pls see bug 11929

My humble guess is, that something(s) must have changed with the updates of the drakx-xxx-tools ???

Status: NEW => REOPENED

(In reply to René Lagoni Neukirch from comment #11)
> Unfortunately, I am back to square one.
> My 8192cu will (agin) not connect whatsoever.
> Albeit it has been working for a short while - pls see bug 11929
> 
> My humble guess is, that something(s) must have changed with the updates of
> the drakx-xxx-tools ???

This is really very, very strange - I rebooted for the 10'th time or so - and now the wireless connection works again.
I havn't touched anything at all, be it router, SW updates, configuring or anything else.

What on earth is going on ???

You should look at your logs (journalctl), there might be differences in kernel outputs

CC: (none) => tmb
Source RPM: drakx-net => kernel, drakx-net

Programmet "drakroam" er gået ned med den følgende fejl: 

  undefined value for mandatory argument 'is_active' encountered at /usr/lib/libDrakX/interactive/gtk.pm line 400. 
  Perl's trace: 
  standalone::bug_handler() called from /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.18.1/Gtk3.pm:304 
  Gtk3::__ANON__() called from /usr/lib/libDrakX/mygtk3.pm:1500 
  mygtk3::main() called from /usr/lib/libDrakX/ugtk3.pm:748 
  ugtk3::main() called from /usr/lib/libDrakX/network/drakroam.pm:133 
  network::drakroam::main() called from /usr/libexec/drakroam:30 

Used theme: oxygen-gtk 

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I din rapport ville det være meget nyttigt at medtage uddata fra den følgende kommando: 'lspcidrake -v'


Tried to connect my wireless 8192CU after having lost connection. 
Maybe somehow connected to bug 6031 ??? 



bash-4.2$ lspcidrake -v
r8169           : Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.|RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller [NETWORK_ETHERNET] (vendor:10ec device:8168 subv:1462 subd:7797) (rev: 06)
snd_hda_intel   : NVIDIA Corporation|GK107 HDMI Audio Controller [MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO_DEV] (vendor:10de device:0e1b subv:1462 subd:2802) (rev: a1)
Card:NVIDIA GeForce 400 series and later: NVIDIA Corporation|GK107 [GeForce GTX 650] [DISPLAY_VGA] (vendor:10de device:0fc6 subv:1462 subd:2802) (rev: a1)
i2c_i801        : Intel Corporation|7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family SMBus Controller [SERIAL_SMBUS] (vendor:8086 device:1e22 subv:1462 subd:7797) (rev: 04)
unknown         : Intel Corporation|7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family 6-port SATA Controller [AHCI mode] [STORAGE_SATA] (vendor:8086 device:1e02 subv:1462 subd:7797) (rev: 04)
lpc_ich         : Intel Corporation|B75 Express Chipset LPC Controller [BRIDGE_ISA] (vendor:8086 device:1e49 subv:1462 subd:7797) (rev: 04)
unknown         : Intel Corporation|82801 PCI Bridge [BRIDGE_PCI] (vendor:8086 device:244e) (rev: a4)
ehci_pci        : Intel Corporation|7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #1 [SERIAL_USB] (vendor:8086 device:1e26 subv:1462 subd:7797) (rev: 04)
shpchp          : Intel Corporation|7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 5 [BRIDGE_PCI] (vendor:8086 device:1e18) (rev: c4)
shpchp          : Intel Corporation|7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 1 [BRIDGE_PCI] (vendor:8086 device:1e10) (rev: c4)
snd_hda_intel   : Intel Corporation|7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller [MULTIMEDIA_AUDIO_DEV] (vendor:8086 device:1e20 subv:1462 subd:7797) (rev: 04)
ehci_pci        : Intel Corporation|7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 [SERIAL_USB] (vendor:8086 device:1e2d subv:1462 subd:7797) (rev: 04)
unknown         : Intel Corporation|7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 [COMMUNICATION_OTHER] (vendor:8086 device:1e3a subv:1462 subd:7797) (rev: 04)
xhci_hcd        : Intel Corporation|7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB xHCI Host Controller [SERIAL_USB] (vendor:8086 device:1e31 subv:1462 subd:7797) (rev: 04)
shpchp          : Intel Corporation|Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor PCI Express Root Port [BRIDGE_PCI] (vendor:8086 device:0151) (rev: 09)
unknown         : Intel Corporation|Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor DRAM Controller [BRIDGE_HOST] (vendor:8086 device:0150 subv:1462 subd:7797) (rev: 09)
hub             : Linux 3.12.5-server-1.mga4 xhci_hcd|xHCI Host Controller [Hub|Unused|Full speed (or root) hub] (vendor:1d6b device:0003)
hub             : Linux 3.12.5-server-1.mga4 xhci_hcd|xHCI Host Controller [Hub|Unused|Full speed (or root) hub] (vendor:1d6b device:0002)
hub             : Linux 3.12.5-server-1.mga4 ehci_hcd|EHCI Host Controller [Hub|Unused|Full speed (or root) hub] (vendor:1d6b device:0002)
hub             : Intel Corp.|Integrated Rate Matching Hub [Hub|Unused|Full speed (or root) hub] (vendor:8087 device:0024)
hub             : Linux 3.12.5-server-1.mga4 ehci_hcd|EHCI Host Controller [Hub|Unused|Full speed (or root) hub] (vendor:1d6b device:0002)
hub             : Intel Corp.|Integrated Rate Matching Hub [Hub|Unused|Full speed (or root) hub] (vendor:8087 device:0024)
rtl8192cu       : Realtek|802.11n WLAN Adapter (vendor:0bda device:8176)
uvcvideo        : Logitech, Inc.|Webcam Pro 9000 [Video|Video Control] (vendor:046d device:0809)
usbhid          : Logitech|USB Receiver [Human Interface Device|Boot Interface Subclass|Mouse] (vendor:046d device:c52f)
usb_storage     : Generic|USB2.0-CRW [Mass Storage|SCSI|Bulk-Only] (vendor:0bda device:0184)
usbhid          : Logitech|Logitech USB Keyboard [Human Interface Device|Boot Interface Subclass|Keyboard] (vendor:046d device:c315)
hid_generic     : Logitech Logitech USB Keyboard
hid_generic     : Logitech USB Receiver
hid_generic     : Logitech USB Receiver
bash-4.2$

commit 6cc2bcd4cf9910461409a57f1429aabeddf51676
Author: Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud@...>
Date:   Mon Dec 16 13:21:11 2013 +0100

    fix a drakx crash (mga#6031)
---
 Commit Link:
   http://gitweb.mageia.org/software/drakx/commit/?id=6cc2bcd4cf9910461409a57f1429aabeddf51676

rtl8192cu firmware provided by default is buggy. Same problem as Ubuntu, see here :
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1365844

A fix has been developed for Ubuntu : 
https://github.com/pvaret/rtl8192cu-fixes


This is how to install it in Mageia 4 : 

- Install following packages : kernel-desktop-devel-latest, dkms, git.
- Reboot to enable dkms (mandatory).

- Login as root and change directory to /usr/src :
# cd /usr/src/

- Download latest version of driver fix :
# git clone https://github.com/pvaret/rtl8192cu-fixes.git

- Retrieve driver version in dkms.conf (1.9 for me) :
# cat ./rtl8192cu-fixes/dkms.conf

- Rename driver folder with appending version number :
# mv rtl8192cu-fixes/ rtl8192cu-fixes-1.9/

- Add, build and install new driver :
# dkms add -m rtl8192cu-fixes -v 1.9
# dkms build -m rtl8192cu-fixes -v 1.9
# dkms install -m rtl8192cu-fixes -v 1.9
# depmod -a
# cp ./rtl8192cu-fixes-1.9/blacklist-native-rtl8192.conf /etc/modprobe.d/

- Reboot

Warning: the first boot with USB wifi key plugged-in can be very very long (several minutes), so please be patient ;-)

CC: (none) => sebastien.guerin.news

Interesing News - thanks a lot, also for The install guide. Do you think it will work for the kernel-server-devel-latest as well ?
Anyway I'll give it at try soon ...
Thanks again !
/René

CONFIRMED - it works just fine for me.

bash-4.2$ uname -a
Linux rln 3.14.27-server-1.mga4 #1 SMP Sun Dec 21 22:58:43 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

GREAT - my speed has doubled (approx).
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(In reply to René Lagoni Neukirch from comment #17)
> Interesing News - thanks a lot, also for The install guide. Do you think it
> will work for the kernel-server-devel-latest as well ?
> Anyway I'll give it at try soon ...
> Thanks again !
> /René

REGRESSION - 8192cu

As before I unfortunately experience yet another regression when using kernel 4.1.13-server-2.mga5 #1 SMP.

I have several times cleaned all I could think of, an I have then done the following:

# cd /usr/src/
# git clone https://github.com/pvaret/rtl8192cu-fixes.git
# cat ./rtl8192cu-fixes/dkms.conf
# mv rtl8192cu-fixes/ rtl8192cu-fixes-1.10
# dkms add -m rtl8192cu-fixes -v 1.10
# dkms build -m rtl8192cu-fixes -v 1.10
# dkms install -m rtl8192cu-fixes -v 1.10
# depmod -a
# cp ./rtl8192cu-fixes-1.10/blacklist-native-rtl8192.conf /etc/modprobe.d/

then reboot - but to no avail every time.
The connection simply won't operate.

I use now utilize a fallback on my WGT111 dongle - any help ?

/René

Sorry, I forgot to add:

There are severe problems in connecting to the network.
When it sometimes happens the upload is around 15 KB !) per minute, and the downlaod is around 1 KB (!) - yes, KILO not MEGA - PER MINUTE.
I have tried to configure with(out) static IP - no difference.
Before changing to the current kernel, and some generations back it has been working fine.

(In reply to René Lagoni Neukirch from comment #19)
> REGRESSION - 8192cu
> 
> As before I unfortunately experience yet another regression when using
> kernel 4.1.13-server-2.mga5 #1 SMP.
> 
> I have several times cleaned all I could think of, an I have then done the
> following:
> 
> # cd /usr/src/
> # git clone https://github.com/pvaret/rtl8192cu-fixes.git
> # cat ./rtl8192cu-fixes/dkms.conf
> # mv rtl8192cu-fixes/ rtl8192cu-fixes-1.10
> # dkms add -m rtl8192cu-fixes -v 1.10
> # dkms build -m rtl8192cu-fixes -v 1.10
> # dkms install -m rtl8192cu-fixes -v 1.10
> # depmod -a
> # cp ./rtl8192cu-fixes-1.10/blacklist-native-rtl8192.conf /etc/modprobe.d/
> 
> then reboot - but to no avail every time.
> The connection simply won't operate.
> 
> I use now utilize a fallback on my WGT111 dongle - any help ?
> 
> /René

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CC: (none) => marja11

Sometime in the life of MGA5, I tried this device again, and it was working perfectly, what little I used it. 

Later, the machine began to be used all the time by a relative. The device would still work the vast majority of the time, but once in a while would fail to work at all on boot, as if the firmware hadn't been loaded. I could work with it and get it started again, after which it would again work for 2-3 weeks or so.

Since upgrading that computer to 64-bit Mageia 6 Plasma, there have been no more failures of this device.

So, I am marking this as resolved.

Resolution: (none) => FIXED
Status: REOPENED => RESOLVED