Installing wireless dongle on Ubuntu system is not just plug-N-play process as most of us think. Only USB keyboard and optical mouse installations do not require so much steps as what we are going to learn here.
Today, I am going to show you how to install TP-Link WN722N driver into the Linux Ubuntu OS.
This is high-gain wireless adaptor with small 4dBi antenna. Transmission speed rated at 150Mbps.
Hop into the TP-Link official website and download the requested driver as shown below. Once downloaded, kindly unzip it into rt8188 folder
sudo apt-get install gcc
ensure the installed gcc version set at least ver 5.4.8 as shown below
Note: make clean is used to compile the code of the driver with current kernel running on your system
sudo depmod -a
cd rtl8188
make clean
make
ls
sudo cp 8188eu.ko /lib/modules/4.4.0-161-generic/kernel/drivers/net/wireless
Note: This will copy the newly compiled driver into our kernel modules. Make sure you know which kernel version you are running now. Be very positive on this.
sudo modprobe 8188eu
sudo insmod 8188eu
lsmod
At this point, the driver is now propagated throughout the system. You will notice that the wireless network icon now appear requesting to connect to any available access points discovered nearby.
Until next time, hope this sharing is beneficial to all. Indeed the good comes from Allah SWT
No comments:
Post a Comment