Hello Russell, On 6/29/17, Russell Coker via luv-main <luv-main@luv.asn.au> wrote:
On Thursday, 29 June 2017 10:03:01 AM AEST Brian May via luv-main wrote:
I currently have an adaptor based on the RTL8188CUS, but ever since upgrading from Debian Jessie (not Raspbian) to Debian Stretch, I get high packet loss. Especially ARP packets - which are somewhat important.
Have you tried running the Jessie kernel with Stretch? The general aim (at least unofficially) is that you should be able to run a Debian system with a kernel from the previous or the next release.
Reminder, as did Brian, that it is on a Raspberry Pi. That requires different headers for that architecture, and not certain of quite what is available in that regard, nor of quite the functions and the like that are supported. It may be that the modules are not supported on that architecture. I suspect that it may involve a certain amount of "detective" effort to sort out what is called and what is not, and what has been dropped between the different releases. There are reasons for using Wi-Fi with the Raspberry Pi, as well as wired.
The Stretch kernel has many new security features. But the benefits of those features to a desktop PC (which you are presumably using as that's the main use case for a USB Wifi device) is smaller than for other situations.
The Raspberry Pi can be used as a desktop, but mostly not the original and version 2. The V3 is better suited to use as a desktop PC, it has a full gigabyte of RAM. Regards, Mark Trickett