On Tue, 2015-10-27 at 21:32 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Tue, 27 Oct 2015 20:24:07 -0400 (EDT), Jose Martinez wrote: > > > > I recently purchased a USB wifi adapter which has a RealTek RTL8192EU > > chip (ID 0bda:818b) in it. A CD came with the wifi adapter which had > > drivers for Windows (which worked properly) and purports to have linux > > drivers as well. Of course the linux driver has to be compiled. > > Following their instructions, and using their install.sh shell script, I > > attempted to compile and install the driver. Unfortunately, the > > compilation failed (attached is a copy of the output from the > > compilation run). I am running Debian 8.2 with kernel 3.16 (sometimes > > 4.2, though 4.2 seems to have some issues that 3.16 doesn't, but that is > > another conversation). I have all the headers installed and can compile > > the kernel successfully on the system, so I'm sure it's not a matter of > > missing headers/source information. Any assistance, either to get the > > distributed driver to compile, or to obtain a driver that does compile > > would be greatly appreciated. > > I found this: > > http://askubuntu.com/questions/619840/rtl8192eu-driver-does-not-work > > This is for Ubuntu, not Debian; but perhaps it can be adapted for > Debian. > I went to this site and downloaded the .deb dkms package referenced there. This is an Ubuntu package, so there were a couple of issues in getting it installed -- The Ubuntu package name for the linux header files is different than the Debian package name so dpkg failed on dependencies. Nevertheless, I bypassed the normal package system (bad thing to do under most circumstances), and unpacked the .deb file and manually moved the files to the appropriate places and ran the postinst configuration script manually. The driver compiled and installed just fine, and I am now using the RealTek usb adapter as I write this. My data rates went up 10 fold on my home network and haven't had a network failure since.
Thanks to all who responded to my request. All the information was helpful.
