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Realtek 802.11n drivers

rtlwifi

  • rtl8192ce is a PCI-E driver for RTL8192CE/RTL8188CE devices.

  • rtl8192cu is a USB driver for RTL8192CU/RTL8188CU devices.

  • rtl8192de is a PCI-E driver for RTL8192DE/RTL8188DE devices.

  • rtl8192se is a PCI-E driver for RTL8192SE/RTL8191SE devices.

  • rtl8723ae is a PCI-E driver for RTL8723AE devices. (in 3.8-rc)

  • rtl8188ee is a PCI-E driver for RTL8188EE devices. (WIP)

staging drivers

They are included in the staging tree at linux-2.6/drivers/staging and they are NOT supported by linux-wireless developers or mailing list. Instead ask for support in http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel . Maintainers are Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com> and Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>.

Unsupported Chips

Firmware

The firmware for those devices can be downloaded from: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git


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