Recently built a PC and everything's working fine except for the wifi dongle. I was told to get a PCI wifi card, but the slots aren't far enough on motherboard, and connecting a graphics card takes up all the space.
So I bought an ALFA USB WiFi dongle. In the CD that came with it, it's mentioned that it's a rtl8188EUS RealTek chip. Since the driver they provided in the disk didn't compile (maybe because it was for Linux 4.1, and I'm on 5.x), I tried installing these drivers:
- builds fine. Installed too. Loaded with
modprobe. Usingdmseg | tail, I'm sure that the correct driver is loaded for the usb dongle. But it doesn't show anywhere inifconfig- same with this. Interface doesn't show in
ifconfig
Is there anything I'm missing or doing wrong? What can I do to get this working.
31 Answer
The problem was that the drivers I was testing were the wrong ones. Thanks to u/XFM2z8BH on reddit, I found the right one.
Just had to do this to get it running:
sudo apt-get install git build-essential
git clone git://
cd rtl8188fu
make
sudo make installfw
sudo modprobe cfg80211
sudo insmod rtl8188fu.ko
