Help please to configure a Realtek USB Wifi (SOLVED, thanks)

[Yankee]

FF: This wasn't what I expected...

[mdm@localhost ~]$ su root
Password:
[root@localhost mdm]# iwlist wlan1 bitrate
wlan1     4 available bit-rates :
     1 Mb/s
     2 Mb/s
     5.5 Mb/s
     11 Mb/s
          Current Bit Rate:54 Mb/s

[root@localhost mdm]#

Someone told me once look, so I did.

From dmesg:

rtl8192c_common: Loading firmware file rtlwifi/rtl8192cufw.bin

ndiswrapper version 1.58rc1 loaded (smp=yes, preempt=yes)

Then you said:

I removed ndiswrapper completely. Then I blacklisted the native rtl8192cu driver

dmesg and terminal messages give great hints, but not always the complete
story.

So you were right.   Two drivers were trying to load.   Problem should be
solved then sounds like.

But keep the above in reserve, the default is auto bitrate detection
and the unix manual I read says some lazy cards go idle, and the bitrate's
don't mesh all the time when suddenly becoming active.   Setting it at fixed 54M will
not allow it to go lazy, basically, per the iwconfig command for that, and
resolve disconnections if any further.    I'm not an expert but all my stuff
eventually works.  

Have a good one.     

FF

[BJF]

Whoa! Not so fast, Batman! Can you point me toward finding the identity of the current wifi driver please. Because with that Realtek Card Reader driver still in there somewhere, and being unable to unmount things using the usb ports now, coupled with the sudden failure of Hibernation (due perhaps to the laptop not being able to resolve what ails the usb porting), I think the machine now has a belt and braces wifi that is not being driven by a proper rlt819x driver at all. Where do I find out what's going on please. 

[Yankee]

Whoa! Not so fast, Batman! Can you point me toward finding the identity of the current wifi driver please. Because with that Realtek Card Reader driver still in there somewhere, and being unable to unmount things using the usb ports now, coupled with the sudden failure of Hibernation (due perhaps to the laptop not being able to resolve what ails the usb porting), I think the machine now has a belt and braces wifi that is not being driven by a proper rlt819x driver at all. Where do I find out what's going on please. 

Perhaps reboot, you may just have too many windows open,
if the wireless won't stop working...........that should be solved ?
Another thread needed possibly.   Unrelated things sounds like to me.

[BJF]

Ferdes: Sorry to be so long in response, but by posting in a new thread in Software, my problems with this wifi seem to be at an end. The root cause (little pun there) seems to be traceable to driver conflict all right. Complete removal of ndiswrapper from the install has produced a stable wifi with the Realtek and an appropriate driver which I still don't have a name for. So this is SOLVED, with thanks to you and muungwana, and to Slingshot.

[sling-shot]

All is well that ends well.
-SS.