On 09/20/2012 05:31 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote:

On Mon, 2012-09-10 at 11:26 -0500, Larry Finger wrote:

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Although the newest firmware for the RTL8192SU, which is found in vendor
driver rtl8188C_8192C_8192D_usb_linux_v3.4.2_3727.20120404, works with most
devices, it causes drops of the wireless connection for the ASUS WL-167G V3
(USB ID 0b05:1791), the D-Link DWA131 (07d1:3303), and probably others.
Tests show that the firmware from vendor driver
rtl8712_8188_8191_8192SU_usb_linux_v7_0.20100831 works better.

This commerts reverts to that older firmware.

Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <redacted>

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This is the original blob added by:

commit 8f919160792e4702c6b7a67a243cea4f757407e4
Author: Larry Finger [off-list ref]
Date:   Mon Nov 1 23:56:52 2010 -0500

     linux-firmware: Add firmware files for Realtek RTL8712U and RTL8192CE

There have been two updates since then:

commit f8ddc05e13c4c6dd9d725bc376b287f307eb223a
Author: Larry Finger [off-list ref]
Date:   Tue Aug 16 11:12:14 2011 -0500

     rtlwifi: rtl8712u: Upgrade to firmware found in vendor's V2.6.6

commit d8f60751d3f09545f51aac5d8e451f7668063ebf
Author: Larry Finger [off-list ref]
Date:   Wed Jul 11 13:18:30 2012 -0500

     r8712u: Update to latest firmware

     A new firmware file is used in the vendor driver with name/version
     rtl8188C_8192C_8192D_usb_linux_v3.4.2_3727.20120404.

Sure you want to revert both of these, not just the latest?

Yes. Both of the updates work on my hardware (D-Link and Rosewill), but both 
fail on an ASUS WL-167g v3 as reported privately to me. I will work with Realtek 
and the OP to resolve the problem, and then update the fw once again.

Thanks,

Larry