Bug#886839: upgrade-reports: USB WiFi dongle support lost after security kernel upgrade

Package: upgrade-reports
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,
   * What led up to the situation?
 Vulnerabilty in the kernel to Spectre/Meltdown
   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
Kernel upgrade to 3.16.51-3+deb8u1 and support for USB wifi 
dongle using RTL8192EU chip stopped. Re-installed drivers from 
existing driver package 
   * What was the outcome of this action?
USB WiFi dongle support restored.
   * What outcome did you expect instead?


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.10 (8.9.0)
  APT prefers oldstable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)