Comment 44 for bug 1220146

I wasted my 5 days on laptop ASUS X550C: I did research, why wifi is not working with installed opensuse 13.1, installed vanilla 3.5 kernel, compiled that driver from github against it (he says 3.5 branch should work) - I could use scan on that device and see wireless networks around, but connection just always timed out - never get ip address.

Then I tried that linuxmint 13, install kernel 3.5.0-24-generic, compile driver and same result as with opensuse and kernel 3.5.7-7, never connect....

I think that in that ASUS is slightly different chipset, at least this line:
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 197c

is different on my ASUS - there is:
Subsystem: FOXCONN something (I wrapped that piece of crap to a box again, so I cannot post full line and will return it)