<div dir="ltr">stephend@stephend-desktop:~$ cat /sys/class/net/wlan0/device/modalias <br>usb:v0BDAp8179d0000dc00dsc00dp00icFFiscFFipFFin00<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 9:38 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 @ 2017-04-18 00:46 GMT:<br>
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> Thanks Jerry that finally worked. Now I should work on 16.04 or 17 but<br>
> going to keep 14.04 around until I know my system won't freeze on the other<br>
> 2.<br>
><br>
><br>
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</span>Great. One more question, can you reply with the output of (assuming the<br>
device it is using is wlan0):<br>
<br>
cat /sys/class/net/wlan0/device/<wbr>modalias<br>
<br>
With that should be able to tell if the r8188eu that Ubuntu includes<br>
will notice the device.<br>
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> On Sun, Apr 16, 2017 at 11:22 PM, Jerry Snitselaar <<a href="mailto:dev@snitselaar.org">dev@snitselaar.org</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
><br>
>><br>
>> Stephen M @ 2017-04-17 01:41 GMT:<br>
>><br>
>> > Jerry,<br>
>> ><br>
>> > I should have noticed this sooner because I have been trying this but the<br>
>> > "extra" in the /lib/mobules is a file instead of a folder. If I'm going<br>
>> to<br>
>> > insert anything into it I can't remember which command to use. Would an<br>
>> > echo command help? Also because I'm on 14 still I think I should upgrade<br>
>> > to 16 but before doing that I'd like to get it to work in 14.<br>
>> ><br>
>><br>
>> Ah, the problem is I forgot to mention creating the directory extra if<br>
>> it didn't exist, so when you did cp 8188eu.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/extra<br>
>> it copied the module to a file with that name. I'm used to that<br>
>> directory being there since I use RHEL and Fedora all the time.<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> So delete that file and then:<br>
>><br>
>> sudo mkdir -p /lib/modules/`uname -r`/extra<br>
>> sudo cp 8188eu.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/extra/<br>
>> sudo depmod -a<br>
>> sudo modprobe 8188eu<br>
>><br>
>> > On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 11:09 AM, Jerry Snitselaar <<a href="mailto:dev@snitselaar.org">dev@snitselaar.org</a>><br>
>> > wrote:<br>
>> ><br>
>> >><br>
>> >> Michael Butash @ 2017-04-14 03:20 GMT:<br>
>> >><br>
>> >> > Seeing the passthrough comment reminded me I have a weird issue with<br>
>> my<br>
>> >> usb<br>
>> >> > wlan nic doing something odd, might affect you doing much the same. I<br>
>> >> > forget the flavor of nic, but once I plug it into linux, the drivers<br>
>> >> would<br>
>> >> > kick in and start locking the device. My goal usually with it is to<br>
>> tend<br>
>> >> > to a windoze instance that also runs some wireless spectrum analyzer<br>
>> >> tools,<br>
>> >> > but I end up having to rmmod the driver prior to giving it to<br>
>> virtualbox<br>
>> >> or<br>
>> >> > windows just sees it as a broken driver state with the angry (!).<br>
>> >> ><br>
>> >> > Might be something like that why it doesn't always come and go?<br>
>> >> ><br>
>> >> > -mb<br>
>> >> ><br>
>> >><br>
>> >> I don't think Stephen was using passthrough, I was just being lazy<br>
>> >> because I didn't want to install ubuntu on a system.<br>
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