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. 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 > -- Stephen Melheim 602-400-7707 SMelheim85@gmail.com