TP-LINK WN725N LM Maya 8188eu driver freeze/panic

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TP-LINK WN725N LM Maya 8188eu driver freeze/panic

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Hi

I have a TP-LINK WN725N wireless usb adapter on my elderly Dell Dimension PC. I've compiled lwfinger's 8188eu driver from GitHub for my Maya 32-bit install.

steve@ElDell ~ $ uname -a
Linux ElDell 3.2.0-33-generic #52-Ubuntu SMP Thu Oct 18 16:19:45 UTC 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

This works fine using the master branch. I get the device recognized and can ping external addresses.

steve@ElDell ~ $ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0bda:8179 Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 413c:2003 Dell Computer Corp. Keyboard
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 046d:c016 Logitech, Inc. Optical Wheel Mouse

steve@ElDell ~ $ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:"TALKTALK5F8D0A" Nickname:"<WIFI@REALTEK>"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 68:A0:F6:5F:8D:10
Bit Rate:150 Mb/s Sensitivity:0/0
Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=45/100 Signal level=-58 dBm Noise level=0 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

eth0 no wireless extensions.

steve@ElDell ~/rtl8188eu-master $ lsmod
Module Size Used by
...
8188eu 672091 0
...

steve@ElDell ~ $ ping http://www.google.co.uk
PING http://www.google.co.uk (216.58.211.163) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from dub08s01-in-f3.1e100.net (216.58.211.163): icmp_req=1 ttl=53 time=133 ms
64 bytes from dub08s01-in-f3.1e100.net (216.58.211.163): icmp_req=2 ttl=53 time=53.2 ms
64 bytes from dub08s01-in-f3.1e100.net (216.58.211.163): icmp_req=3 ttl=53 time=47.9 ms
64 bytes from dub08s01-in-f3.1e100.net (216.58.211.163): icmp_req=4 ttl=53 time=26.7 ms
^C
--- http://www.google.co.uk ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 3003ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 26.712/65.330/133.365/40.518 ms

However, if I open a browser, this system immediately freezes; if I leave the machine running, then after a short period (10-30 mins), I get a system panic.

Not sure if this is an issue for lwfinger on github, or more of a Mint/Ubuntu problem. I could upgrade to a newer Mint, but 13 has been working fine for me until I needed to relocate my PC and go wireless.

Any advice?

Thanks.

Steve
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