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lwfinger / rtl8188gu

This repo contains a Linux driver for the RTL8188GU
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driver not working on debian testing with Tenda U2 #15

Open hongjia opened 1 year ago

hongjia commented 1 year ago

The driver compiles ok. But after insmod, no network interface appears.

usb wifi dongle: Tenda U2

uname -r:

6.3.0-1-amd64

lsusb:

Bus 001 Device 005: ID 0bda:b711 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8188GU 802.11n WLAN Adapter (After Modeswitch)

dmesg:

[ 2248.999428] 8188gu: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel.
[ 2248.999844] 8188gu: module verification failed: signature and/or required key missing - tainting kernel
[ 2249.051760] RTW: module init start
[ 2249.051763] RTW: rtl8710bu v5.2.22_xxxx.20180117
[ 2249.051774] RTW: rtw_inetaddr_notifier_register
[ 2249.051800] usbcore: registered new interface driver rtl8710bu
[ 2249.051801] RTW: module init ret=0

ip link list:

1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
2: enp2s0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 58:11:22:0a:28:d5 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
lwfinger commented 1 year ago

This drive was provided as a convenience, but I know of no one that has made it work.

hongjia commented 1 year ago

That's a pity.

hongjia commented 1 year ago

I installed kernel 6.4.0 from debian experimental and it works! Thank you.

owk444 commented 1 year ago

I recommend to use this branch https://github.com/McMCCRU/rtl8188gu

It works fine on Ubuntu 22.04 with kernel 5.15.0-78-generic and lower. One exception: If you update a kernel via apt upgrade, you must to reinstall accordingly README, because final .ko module placed in to /var/lib/....current_kernel only, and booted only with it.