Installs to wrong directory (and doesn't work)

[x0a]

OS: Ubuntu 16.04.2 Kernel: 4.4.0-83-generic Wireless card:

       *-network UNCLAIMED
            description: Network controller
            product: RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter
            vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
            physical id: 0
            bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
            version: 01
            width: 64 bits
            clock: 33MHz
            capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
            configuration: latency=0
            resources: ioport:3000(size=256) memory:f0200000-f0203fff

I've been using this driver for about 2 years with no issues, cloning & recompiling after every update. But I stopped using it for about 5 months because I got a wired connection. I tried to install it recently but it failed every time (./am_i_using_this_driver.sh showed I was still running the stock driver, persisted after reboot).

In Makefile, the destination directory is defined as:

MODDESTDIR := /lib/modules/$(KVER)/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi

But the drivers are actually in /lib/modules/$(KVER)/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi

If I update the directory, the drivers successfully install and are detected by ./am_i_using_this_driver.sh. However, once I turn wifi on, everything freezes, keyboard becomes unresponsive and I'm forced to hard reset my laptop. On boot, I see a bunch of "[FAILED] Failed to start Load Kernel Modules" messages and wifi doesn't show up in the notification bar. Let me know how I can help debug this.

[x0a]

OK I was finally able to get it to install and run by more thoroughly replacing all instances of wireless/rtlwifi with wireless/realtek/rtlwifi

The quick and dirty way to get it to install is to change line 41 in ./install.sh from make && make install to make && grep --exclude={"dkms.conf","base.c.log","rebase.sh","index","README.md","build-and-modprobe.rb"} -rl "wireless/rtlwifi" | xargs sed -i "s/wireless\/rtlwifi/wireless\/realtek\/rtlwifi/g" && make install

Of course the more permanent solution is to parse output from "modinfo rtl*" to get the real location of the module instead of hardcoding.

Aside from that, thank you for the excellent work on this driver!

[FFY00]

@x0a after applying this fix the computer freezes like you described and my keyboard's Caps Lock and Scroll Block start flashing.

EDIT This seems to be a problem in the driver itself. I managed to get the code running like you described but the driver just freezes the computer.

[zboyd2]

I ran into a very similar issue and eventually fixed it by deleting everything in the realtek directory and replacing it with a symbolic link to the directory where the install script put everything. I also had to put in a script in init.d to load the necessary modules at each boot, since modprobe does not like this solution for some reason..

[LocoUnPocoNadaMas]

OK I was finally able to get it to install and run by more thoroughly replacing all instances of wireless/rtlwifi with wireless/realtek/rtlwifi

The quick and dirty way to get it to install is to change line 41 in ./install.sh from make && make install to make && grep --exclude={"dkms.conf","base.c.log","rebase.sh","index","README.md","build-and-modprobe.rb"} -rl "wireless/rtlwifi" | xargs sed -i "s/wireless\/rtlwifi/wireless\/realtek\/rtlwifi/g" && make install

Of course the more permanent solution is to parse output from "modinfo rtl*" to get the real location of the module instead of hardcoding.

Aside from that, thank you for the excellent work on this driver!

thanks mate!