Stephen M @ 2017-04-13 04:45 GMT: I went and picked one of these up at Fry's since they were $10. Using usb passthrough from my fedora host to the ubuntu vm, I can get the device to come up with either the r8188eu driver that comes with Ubuntu, or the 8188eu driver that tp-link provides. One thing I had to do when rebooting the vm was remove and reinsert the device, but that could just be an issue with using it through usb passthrough. This is with 14.04.3 running 3.19.0-25-generic Perhaps if you want to use the tp-link provided one, maybe blacklist the Ubuntu driver. snits jsnitsel@ubuntu14-32:~$ lsmod | grep 8188 jsnitsel@ubuntu14-32:~$ lsusb Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0bda:8179 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0627:0001 Adomax Technology Co., Ltd Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub jsnitsel@ubuntu14-32:~$ find /lib/modules -type f -name 8188eu.ko jsnitsel@ubuntu14-32:~$ cd Downloads/Driver/ jsnitsel@ubuntu14-32:~/Downloads/Driver$ ls 8188eu.ko 8188eu.o core include modules.order platform wpa_0_8.conf 8188eu.mod.c bin hal Kconfig Module.symvers runwpa 8188eu.mod.o clean ifcfg-wlan0 Makefile os_dep wlan0dhcp jsnitsel@ubuntu14-32:~/Downloads/Driver$ sudo cp 8188eu.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/extra/ [sudo] password for jsnitsel: jsnitsel@ubuntu14-32:~/Downloads/Driver$ sudo depmod -a jsnitsel@ubuntu14-32:~/Downloads/Driver$ jsnitsel@ubuntu14-32:~/Downloads/Driver$ sudo modprobe 8188eu jsnitsel@ubuntu14-32:~/Downloads/Driver$ ip a show 1: lo: mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever inet6 ::1/128 scope host valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 2: eth0: mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP group default qlen 1000 link/ether 52:54:00:e0:39:64 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet6 fe80::5054:ff:fee0:3964/64 scope link valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 3: wlan0: mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP group default qlen 1000 link/ether d4:6e:0e:19:87:a3 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet 192.168.1.163/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global wlan0 valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever inet6 fe80::d66e:eff:fe19:87a3/64 scope link valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever jsnitsel@ubuntu14-32:~/Downloads/Driver$ cd /sys/class/net/wlan0/device jsnitsel@ubuntu14-32:/sys/class/net/wlan0/device$ cat uevent DEVTYPE=usb_interface DRIVER=rtl8188eu PRODUCT=bda/8179/0 TYPE=0/0/0 INTERFACE=255/255/255 MODALIAS=usb:v0BDAp8179d0000dc00dsc00dp00icFFiscFFipFFin00 jsnitsel@ubuntu14-32:/sys/class/net/wlan0/device$ lsmod | grep 8188 8188eu 933888 0 cfg80211 450560 1 8188eu jsnitsel@ubuntu14-32:/sys/class/net/wlan0/device$ ping -c 5 google.com PING google.com (216.58.217.206) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from lax17s05-in-f14.1e100.net (216.58.217.206): icmp_seq=1 ttl=55 time=23.6 ms 64 bytes from lax17s05-in-f14.1e100.net (216.58.217.206): icmp_seq=2 ttl=55 time=29.9 ms 64 bytes from lax17s05-in-f14.1e100.net (216.58.217.206): icmp_seq=3 ttl=55 time=28.3 ms 64 bytes from lax17s05-in-f14.1e100.net (216.58.217.206): icmp_seq=4 ttl=55 time=22.0 ms 64 bytes from lax17s05-in-f14.1e100.net (216.58.217.206): icmp_seq=5 ttl=55 time=22.6 ms --- google.com ping statistics --- 5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4005ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 22.064/25.314/29.975/3.209 ms jsnitsel@ubuntu14-32:/sys/class/net/wlan0/device$ uname -r 3.19.0-25-generic jsnitsel@ubuntu14-32:/sys/class/net/wlan0/device$ find /lib/modules -type f -name 8188eu.ko /lib/modules/3.19.0-25-generic/extra/8188eu.ko jsnitsel@ubuntu14-32:~$ cd /etc/modprobe.d/ jsnitsel@ubuntu14-32:/etc/modprobe.d$ cat blacklist-r8188eu.conf blacklist r8188eu --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss