Wifi adapter

[Jerry Snitselaar]

Stephen M @ 2017-04-17 01:41 GMT:

> Jerry,
>
> I should have noticed this sooner because I have been trying this but the
> "extra" in the /lib/mobules is a file instead of a folder.  If I'm going to
> insert anything into it I can't remember which command to use.  Would an
> echo command help?  Also because I'm on 14 still I think I should upgrade
> to 16 but before doing that I'd like to get it to work in 14.
>

Ah, the problem is I forgot to mention creating the directory extra if
it didn't exist, so when you did cp 8188eu.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/extra
it copied the module to a file with that name. I'm used to that
directory being there since I use RHEL and Fedora all the time.


So delete that file and then:

sudo mkdir -p /lib/modules/`uname -r`/extra
sudo cp 8188eu.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/extra/
sudo depmod -a
sudo modprobe 8188eu

> On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 11:09 AM, Jerry Snitselaar <dev at snitselaar.org>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Michael Butash @ 2017-04-14 03:20 GMT:
>>
>> > Seeing the passthrough comment reminded me I have a weird issue with my
>> usb
>> > wlan nic doing something odd, might affect you doing much the same.  I
>> > forget the flavor of nic, but once I plug it into linux, the drivers
>> would
>> > kick in and start locking the device.  My goal usually with it is to tend
>> > to a windoze instance that also runs some wireless spectrum analyzer
>> tools,
>> > but I end up having to rmmod the driver prior to giving it to virtualbox
>> or
>> > windows just sees it as a broken driver state with the angry (!).
>> >
>> > Might be something like that why it doesn't always come and go?
>> >
>> > -mb
>> >
>>
>> I don't think Stephen was using passthrough, I was just being lazy
>> because I didn't want to install ubuntu on a system.
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