Wifi adapter

[Stephen M]

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 <dev at snitselaar.org>
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 <dev at snitselaar.org>
> > 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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