Wifi adapter

[Jerry Snitselaar]

Stephen M @ 2017-04-18 00:46 GMT:

> Thanks Jerry that finally worked.  Now I should work on 16.04 or 17 but
> going to keep 14.04 around until I know my system won't freeze on the other
> 2.
>
>

Great. One more question, can you reply with the output of (assuming the
device it is using is wlan0):

cat /sys/class/net/wlan0/device/modalias

With that should be able to tell if the r8188eu that Ubuntu includes
will notice the device.


> On Sun, Apr 16, 2017 at 11:22 PM, Jerry Snitselaar <dev at snitselaar.org>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> 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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