Seems to be working. I am saying seems to be because I have not used it extensively yet, and I do not know if anyone else has.
I am repeating here all I did, so as to make it easy for any other user as illiterate as I am, with hopefully all the possible keywords that may help finding it. Note that my GUI is in French, and the labels I use are sometimes translated back from French and may differ from those used in the English GUI.
One thing I did, before all that follows, was to install the
package dkms, as while looking for documentation in my early attempts, I had read that the package dkms must be installed. This was done with the Mageia Control Center (
MCC) in the usual way. I mention that because I did it. But I do not know whether it was actually necessary. It may have been.
I am currently connected to the Internet through my new WiFi-USB Adapter (802.11n) using the Realtek rtl8192eu chip. It is running with the last driver package for the Realtek rtl8192eu proposed by
MauRice.
I used the package
http://laptopke.be/files/(S)RPMs/dkms-rtl8192eu-4.3.1.1-11320.20151212.mga5.noarch.rpm:
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wget http://laptopke.be/files/(S)RPMs/dkms-rtl8192eu-4.3.1.1-11320.20151212.mga5.noarch.rpm
rpm --install -v dkms-rtl8192eu-4.3.1.1-11320.20151212.mg5.noarch.rpm
and that is it . . . for the driver.
One problem has been that the hardware detection in the MCC did not show my adapter device (when you click the first item on the
Harware control page). Normally, the Ethernet connection hardware shows by clicking on the line "
Ethernet card". But my device remained invisible, and I thought it might be because the driver was not working. Though I am not certain about it, I suppose the adapter should show even if there is no driver for it (would be nice if someone could confirm this). I was looking there for my adapter as some page on the Internet says that is where you see it appear when it works.
Then I had the idea to click the last line, "
Unknown/Others". And there it was, in the company of chips used for thermal control. Well, that is not exactly as it should be (
should that be checked on Cauldron ?), and may cause some worry, as it did me. But it does not seem to otherwise hurt the system.
(I would insert a picture if I knew how, from my computer).
Then I went to the MCC page on
Network & Internet, and clicked to configure a new connexion. My new USB-WiFi Adapter was one of the solution proposed, and I just configured the connexion as usual (same parameter as for my WiFi card). And it works. It works apparently significantly better than with my original WiFi card, which was the whole purpose for me.
Thanks so much to all who contributed to this discussion. All contributions are useful as they explore the issue and help ultimately focussing on what will work.
PS: the chipset rtl8192eu corresponds to the device identifier 0x818b or 0bda:818b (do not ask me whether there is a difference). You can see that on the device description from the hardware detection page of the MCC. This device identifier is what appears for example with command lsmod.