I have a similar issue with a no-name brand version of the above chipset. I originally downloaded the armbian jessie distro with desktop and installed the above drivers with no real issue. I've run this as an OctoPrint server for my 3D printer for the last month+. Yesterday I logged into the server with putty and saw some updates available and ran upgrade. Apparently this broke my wifi completely. I ended up for simplicity just reinstalling the original image and starting from scratch. I'm not getting it to work this time around. I went ahead and upgraded everything before installing the 8192cu-fixes and everything completes without any errors or warnings. I copied the blacklist files and power management files to the correct modprobe.d folder as well. Rebooting and installing the dongle to the OPiPC, I don't have wifi, nor is there a wireless connection when I do iwconfig. If i manually run insmod 8192cu.ko then check lsmod again the module is loaded and the iwconfig shows a connection. I can run ifconfig wlan0 up and scan and connect to networks and remove the wired connection and run it fine. I tried rewriting the /etc/network/interfaces to comment out the wired and allow hotplug on the dongle and it still doesn't work, unless I manually run those files. Any suggestions?
