Sorry, I thought I made it clear with my reply that I checked the sha1sum on the firmware and it matched the one you listed.
"No joy for me, Pauli. I tried simply copying the firmware included with the new driver into /lib/firmware/rtlwifi and verified the SHA1 sum matched the one you listed."
That value is: bbd9b4e2c53e18df3aed03d22eee8d8c22ef9a8e, just as you posted.
dmesg | grep rtl shows the firmware in use to be rtlwifi/rtl8192cfw.bin, just as in yours.
Sorry, I thought I made it clear with my reply that I checked the sha1sum on the firmware and it matched the one you listed.
"No joy for me, Pauli. I tried simply copying the firmware included with the new driver into /lib/firmware/ rtlwifi and verified the SHA1 sum matched the one you listed."
That value is: bbd9b4e2c53e18d f3aed03d22eee8d 8c22ef9a8e, just as you posted.
dmesg | grep rtl shows the firmware in use to be rtlwifi/ rtl8192cfw. bin, just as in yours.