Sorry if i'm going slightly off-topic, but i just reinstalled Fedora and added rpm-fusion, however i have a slight problem. I'm currently accessing the internet through a wifi adapter, rtl8192cu, and this specific adapter has a known problem with linux (it keeps turning itself off/runs slow). In Debian i use this fix: https://github.com/pvaret/rtl8192cu-fixes , but now i'm not sure if there is a better way to fix it in Fedora (i couldn't find anything in rpmfusion). Besides that fix, i also found this one: https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/52381/fedora-20-realtek-wifi-driver-slowerrorsdrops-connection/ , which seems to be just an updated driver option (which might work, but i'm not sure how well it would integrate with the package manager, if at all).
If anything, the previous fix is known to work (it's what i was using before), i'm just afraid that may be the reason my OS was breaking, so i'm being careful, but i couldn't find much about it. Do you know anything about these drivers?
However. How much time have you wasted trying to get it to work? If you can replace it just buy an Intel chip instead (and pci adaptor if you need one)
The adapter is an "n300", i don't have the box anymore so that's probably not the complete spec. I've been at it a few hours, i tried the linked method but it didn't work, i'm formatting to try again since all the stores are closed at this time, i'll buy another adapter tomorrow either way. Thanks a lot for all the help. By the way, this method (downloading a driver that doesn't come from a repository) only works for the current kernel right? For any driver. Whenever the kernel updates, i'd have to replace the manually installed drivers.
Yeah unless you build it right it usually needs rebuilding every time.
A few hours is enough money to buy a new card. (Hense the question) if you could learn from it or patch the driver to make a working one it's worth it, but most of these little things your better off in the long run just replacing and making better use of your time on your system.
If the wifi goes to a crawl or shuts down after some time i'd first just turn off the wifi powersaving sudo iwconfig *nic * power off Might be as simple as that if you're lucky
normally, installing tlp or configuring it in powertop fixes all of these kind of issues, it might be power management of the adapter itself or from the usb socket, there is no way to know unless by installing an advanced power management system, tlp does everything automatically, powertop is a bit older but offers more granular control if you need it. I would recommend tlp on laptops and powertop on desktops.