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