Wifi adapter

[Jerry Snitselaar]

On Tue Apr 18 17, Stephen M wrote:
>stephend at stephend-desktop:~$ cat /sys/class/net/wlan0/device/modalias
>usb:v0BDAp8179d0000dc00dsc00dp00icFFiscFFipFFin00
>
>

Yeah, the r8188eu driver that comes with the ubuntu kernel should work.

If you do 'modinfo r8188eu | grep alias' does it have the following line?

alias:          usb:v0BDAp8179d*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*in*


>On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 9:38 AM, Jerry Snitselaar <dev at snitselaar.org>
>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 <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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