Firmware loading fails for USB WiFi

[Louis Croisez]

I just bought a Belkin wireless USB device, with a Realtek 8192cu chipset inside.
After plugged in the Multitech mlinux conduit, I see that modules are loaded well.
It fails when trying to load the firmware files.

Snipped from dmesg:

usb 1-2.4: new high-speed USB device number 23 using atmel-ehci
usb 1-2.4: New USB device found, idVendor=050d, idProduct=1004
usb 1-2.4: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
usb 1-2.4: Product: 802.11n WLAN Adapter
usb 1-2.4: Manufacturer: Realtek
usb 1-2.4: SerialNumber: 00e04c000001
rtl8192cu: Chip version 0x11
rtl8192cu: MAC address: c0:56:27:80:28:27
rtl8192cu: Board Type 0
rtl_usb: rx_max_size 15360, rx_urb_num 8, in_ep 1
rtl8192cu: Loading firmware rtlwifi/rtl8192cufw_TMSC.bin
rtlwifi: Loading alternative firmware rtlwifi/rtl8192cufw.bin
rtlwifi: Firmware rtlwifi/rtl8192cufw_TMSC.bin not available

By doing a modinfo on rtl8192cu, I got:

root@mtcdt:/lib/modules/3.12.27/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi# modinfo rtl8192cu | grep firmware
firmware: rtlwifi/rtl8192cufw_TMSC.bin
firmware: rtlwifi/rtl8192cufw_B.bin
firmware: rtlwifi/rtl8192cufw_A.bin
firmware: rtlwifi/rtl8192cufw.bin

I found these files at https://github.com/TI-OpenLink/firmwares/tree/master/rtlwifi.
I put it in /lib/modules/3.12.27/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi, but dmesg still gives me a message: rtlwifi/rtl8192cufw_TMSC.bin not available

What’s wrong?
I suspect that the solution is not so far.

[Louis Croisez]

I found a working solution at https://www.debian-fr.org/t/installation-de-clef-usb-wifi-netgear-wna1000m/68643/5

The rtl8192cufw_TMSC.bin file has to be put at /lib/firmware/rtlwifi directory.
Note: this is working in mLinux kernel version 3.12.27

Now ifconfig -a is showing wlan0 device.

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