Het is een klein, wit kort usb-stikje dat de functie van 150 Mbps Wireless N heeft. Stekker vermeldt model TL-WN723N Ver 2.2. Tot nu toe nog niet aan de praat gekregen; heeft iemand daar ervaring mee? Welke distro/versie heb je hem wel/niet aan de praat gekregen? Online bieden ze alleen een driver voor Windows op hun support pagina. Ik stuurde een vraag naar hun “e-mail support” –

Helaas, de “support” is niet erg ondersteunend; enkel een standaardmelding dat enkel de besturingssystemen ondersteund worden die te vinden zijn op een lijst op hun website en op de verpakking.

Geen antwoord op de vraag of er buiten de officiële ondersteuning iets bestaat.

Op wireless.kernel.org komt hij niet voor, wel TL-WN721N en TL-WN722N, , die gebruiken de ath9k_htc driver

Op askubuntu.com wordt gesproken over de RTL8188CUS van Realtek.com driver

Op OpenSUSE 11.4 wordt hij benoemd als Realtek 802.11n wlan adapter revisie 2.0

Update: Op Ubuntu 12.04 LTS wordt het draadloos netwerk aangeboden met de juiste netwerknaam; de stick functioneert dus minstens zover (ik geraakte niet ingelogd). Kernel was iets van 3.2.0-55-generic.

Wat output van /var/log/messages (na het insteken van de wireless usb):
2014-09-12T15:17:44.744819+02:00 linuxbox kernel: [367279.657899] usb 2-1.7: new high-speed USB device number 8 using ehci-pci
2014-09-12T15:17:44.813884+02:00 linuxbox kernel: [367279.744831] usb 2-1.7: New USB device found, idVendor=0bda, idProduct=8176
2014-09-12T15:17:44.813893+02:00 linuxbox kernel: [367279.744836] usb 2-1.7: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
2014-09-12T15:17:44.813894+02:00 linuxbox kernel: [367279.744847] usb 2-1.7: Product: 802.11n WLAN Adapter
2014-09-12T15:17:44.813895+02:00 linuxbox kernel: [367279.744849] usb 2-1.7: Manufacturer: Realtek
2014-09-12T15:17:44.813896+02:00 linuxbox kernel: [367279.744851] usb 2-1.7: SerialNumber: 00e04c000001
2014-09-12T15:17:45.151802+02:00 linuxbox mtp-probe: checking bus 2, device 8: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.7"
2014-09-12T15:17:45.368900+02:00 linuxbox kernel: [367280.300440] cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain
2014-09-12T15:17:45.437901+02:00 linuxbox kernel: [367280.368834] cfg80211: World regulatory domain updated:
2014-09-12T15:17:45.437915+02:00 linuxbox kernel: [367280.368839] cfg80211: DFS Master region: unset
2014-09-12T15:17:45.437917+02:00 linuxbox kernel: [367280.368841] cfg80211: (start_freq - end_freq @ bandwidth), (max_antenna_gain, max_eirp), (dfs_cac_time)
2014-09-12T15:17:45.437919+02:00 linuxbox kernel: [367280.368845] cfg80211: (2402000 KHz - 2472000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm), (N/A)
2014-09-12T15:17:45.437920+02:00 linuxbox kernel: [367280.368848] cfg80211: (2457000 KHz - 2482000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm), (N/A)
2014-09-12T15:17:45.437921+02:00 linuxbox kernel: [367280.368850] cfg80211: (2474000 KHz - 2494000 KHz @ 20000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm), (N/A)
2014-09-12T15:17:45.437922+02:00 linuxbox kernel: [367280.368853] cfg80211: (5170000 KHz - 5250000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm), (N/A)
2014-09-12T15:17:45.437923+02:00 linuxbox kernel: [367280.368855] cfg80211: (5735000 KHz - 5835000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm), (N/A)
2014-09-12T15:17:45.561916+02:00 linuxbox kernel: [367280.492745] rtl8192cu: Chip version 0x10
2014-09-12T15:17:45.637891+02:00 linuxbox kernel: [367280.569302] rtl8192cu: MAC address: a0:f3:c1:08:eb:c4
2014-09-12T15:17:45.637909+02:00 linuxbox kernel: [367280.569308] rtl8192cu: Board Type 0
2014-09-12T15:17:45.637910+02:00 linuxbox kernel: [367280.569549] rtl_usb: rx_max_size 15360, rx_urb_num 8, in_ep 1
2014-09-12T15:17:45.637912+02:00 linuxbox kernel: [367280.569577] rtl8192cu: Loading firmware rtlwifi/rtl8192cufw_TMSC.bin
2014-09-12T15:17:45.638883+02:00 linuxbox kernel: [367280.569692] usbcore: registered new interface driver rtl8192cu
2014-09-12T15:17:45.649907+02:00 linuxbox kernel: [367280.580885] usb 2-1.7: Direct firmware load failed with error -2
2014-09-12T15:17:45.649917+02:00 linuxbox kernel: [367280.580890] usb 2-1.7: Falling back to user helper
2014-09-12T15:17:45.649918+02:00 linuxbox kernel: [367280.581476] usb 2-1.7: Direct firmware load failed with error -2
2014-09-12T15:17:45.649919+02:00 linuxbox kernel: [367280.581478] usb 2-1.7: Falling back to user helper
2014-09-12T15:17:45.650886+02:00 linuxbox kernel: [367280.582004] rtlwifi: Loading alternative firmware rtlwifi/rtl8192cufw.bin
2014-09-12T15:17:45.650896+02:00 linuxbox kernel: [367280.582007] rtlwifi: Firmware rtlwifi/rtl8192cufw_TMSC.bin not available
2014-09-12T10:06:48.505584+02:00 linuxbox kdeinit4: DIGEST-MD5 common mech free
2014-09-12T15:17:45.727664+02:00 linuxbox mtp-probe: bus: 2, device: 8 was not an MTP device
2014-09-12T15:18:26.585951+02:00 linuxbox su: (to linuxuser) linuxuser on none
2014-09-12T15:18:26.677485+02:00 linuxbox su: pam_systemd(su:session): pam_putenv: delete non-existent entry; XDG_RUNTIME_DIR
2014-09-12T15:19:05.761479+02:00 linuxbox dhcpcd[5289]: eth0: renewing lease of 192.168.1.80
2014-09-12T15:19:05.837061+02:00 linuxbox dhcpcd[5289]: eth0: leased 192.168.1.80 for 3600 seconds