<div dir="ltr"><div>I get this message when trying,<br><br>stephend@stephend-desktop:~/Downloads/rtl8188eu$ sudo modprobe 8188eu.ko<br>[sudo] password for stephend: <br>modprobe: FATAL: Module 8188eu.ko not found.<br>stephend@stephend-desktop:~/Downloads/rtl8188eu$<br><br></div>Now I'm assuming I need to move the driver but do a move the entire folder or just the script itself to the usr/lib folder?<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 8, 2017 at 11:40 AM, Jerry Snitselaar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dev@snitselaar.org" target="_blank">dev@snitselaar.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
Stephen M @ 2017-04-08 15:56 GMT:<br>
<span class=""><br>
> The driver is rtl8188eu for a TL-WN725N wifi adapter<br>
><br>
<br>
</span> Ah, that has been sitting in drivers/staging for a long time.<br>
<br>
Does your modprobe work now?<br>
<br>
An example on Fedora 25 with a test module:<br>
<br>
~/mymod> sudo modprobe mymod<br>
modprobe: FATAL: Module mymod not found in directory /lib/modules/4.10.5-200.fc25.<wbr>x86_64<br>
~/mymod> make<br>
make -C /lib/modules/4.10.5-200.fc25.<wbr>x86_64/build M=/home/jsnitsel/mymod modules<br>
make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/kernels/4.10.5-200.<wbr>fc25.x86_64'<br>
CC [M] /home/jsnitsel/mymod/mymod.o<br>
Building modules, stage 2.<br>
MODPOST 1 modules<br>
CC /home/jsnitsel/mymod/mymod.<wbr>mod.o<br>
LD [M] /home/jsnitsel/mymod/mymod.ko<br>
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/kernels/4.10.5-200.<wbr>fc25.x86_64'<br>
xz --check=crc32 --lzma2=dict=512KiB mymod.ko<br>
~/mymod> ls<br>
Makefile modules.order Module.symvers mymod.c mymod.ko.xz mymod.mod.c mymod.mod.o mymod.o<br>
~/mymod> sudo cp mymod.ko.xz /lib/modules/`uname -r`/extra/<br>
~/mymod> sudo depmod -a<br>
~/mymod> sudo modprobe mymod<br>
~/mymod> lsmod | grep mymod<br>
mymod 16384 0<br>
~/mymod> dmesg | tail -1<br>
[344910.989060] loading mymod<br>
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> On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 10:32 PM, Jerry Snitselaar <<a href="mailto:dev@snitselaar.org">dev@snitselaar.org</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
><br>
>><br>
>> Stephen M @ 2017-04-08 00:55 GMT:<br>
>><br>
>> > Hi everyone,<br>
>> ><br>
>> > This seems really dumb but I have a wifi adapter from TP-Link on a Ubuntu<br>
>> > 14.04 machine that disconnects after reboot or a system update. I keep<br>
>> > typing insmod to get it to turn back on. I know I need to do modprobe<br>
>> but<br>
>> > it can't find the file.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > I downloaded the driver from their site, unzipped it in my download<br>
>> folder<br>
>> > though I think I need to move it. Any help would be grateful.<br>
>><br>
>> modprobe can't load it because it knows nothing about the driver.<br>
>><br>
>> Try:<br>
>><br>
>> sudo cp *downloaded-module* /lib/modules/`uname -r`/extra/<br>
>> sudo depmod -a<br>
>><br>
>> You will still run into the issue each time a new kernel is installed,<br>
>> and since the driver isn't tied to the kernel you are running there can<br>
>> be incompatibilities that cause issues. if you do run into issues with<br>
>> it, you can blacklist it on the kernel parameters line when booting.<br>
>> 'module_blacklist=module_name' should work.<br>
>><br>
>> What driver is it using?<br>
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