Re-enable rtl8192cu ?

[macmpi]

Following 4.19.40 and newer and improved driver, maybe one can remove related blacklist?

[XECDesign]

@popcornmix

[popcornmix]

It's an option. When we added it, the downstream driver seemed to be working better.
But that was two and a half years ago. The upstream driver is quite likely improved.
It would be nice to drop the downstream driver (which typically causes some grief when moving to newer kernels) at some point (although presumably we'll leave it as a non-default option initially).

@pelwell thoughts?

[pelwell]

I'm happy for us to revert to the upstream driver, at least on a trial basis. However, because of the blacklist this switch has (excluding serious hackery) to be done in the sys-mods package, which unfortunately represents the "stable" distribution.

i.e. Yes in principal, unsure of the practicalities.

[popcornmix]

Not quite sure if we need to swap blacklist to 8192cu or just remove it.
My recollection was we got the rtl8192cu module loaded by default when both modules were present, although I'm not sure if that was guaranteed, or just by luck.

[XECDesign]

Swap would probably be safest until 8192cu is removed from the downstream kernel?