Hi, I recently bought a USB wifi adapter with RTL8192CU chipset. Drivers are available from Realtek's website, and are updated regularly (last month), but are not in the mainline Linux kernel or in the portage tree.
Compiling and installing the drivers is not a problem, but every time I insert the USB adapter my computer freezes and no amount of magic-SysRq can get me out of it. I tried on 2 different Gentoo machines with the same result. The adapter works (poorly...) on a Windows XP machine, so I know the hardware is functional. Does anyone else here use these drivers?