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 > 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 >> > 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. >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> >> 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 >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> 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 >> --------------------------------------------------- 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