Comment 315 for bug 1239578

The troy branch loads rtl8192eefw_new.bin; however, after some testing and consultation with Realtek, I determined that there was no need to keep separate names. For that reason and to minimize the disk usage, the kernel loads rtl8192eefw.bin. You can copy the one with the _new in its name to the one without, if you want to use the later version. The updated firmware is already in the linux-firmware repo, and will be propagated through the distros in time.

The rtl_cam logged items indicate the changing of the wifi keys. The second one tells you that the connection has been dropped. It is NOT the cause of the drop.

I have been using the driver for over 24 hours. There have been several disconnects in that time; however, the recovery has been automatic. One thing to note is that the transmit is somewhat fragile. Operations like continuous iperf or flood pings will likely cause a failure and are discouraged at least for the moment. Realtek knows of the problem and is working on it.