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Author: Stephen M
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Subject: Re: Wifi adapter
stephend@stephend-desktop:~$ cat /sys/class/net/wlan0/device/modalias
usb:v0BDAp8179d0000dc00dsc00dp00icFFiscFFipFFin00


On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 9:38 AM, Jerry Snitselaar <>
wrote:

>
> 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.
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