Adding a new Wireless Adapter

[theFOoL]

Hi,

I'm trying to add THIS Ourlink Wireless Adapter to my Zotac Mini PC but I don't know how to install it. I'm new to Linux and it runs fine in Windows. I've extracted the Linux Driver but MINT won't detect the Device. I've tried running the MakeFile and idk what else to do. Help!

 

[FYFI13]

"This adapter and chipset has open source drivers with support for Linux Kernel 2.6.18 through 2.6.38 and Kernel 3.0.8 and higher. Driver is already in recent Linux kernel versions 2.6.39 and later (kernel option CONFIG_RTL8192CU)."

That's from your link. It "should" work out of the box. Could you run this command in terminal "lshw -class network" (without quotes) and post output here please? Oh, make sure to insert WiFi adapter first.

 

[theFOoL]

I did THIS but i'm sure your's was easier. I mean it was easy just took a lot of copy/pasting

 

[blobster21]

Right now you followed the guide to install the driver (which is probably already natively supported in Mint), but you're still missing the corresponding firmware.

Assuming the driver is installed, jump in a terminal and issue the following command as a sudoer :

sudo apt-get update && apt-get install firmware-realtek

Reboot and your usb dongle should work.

 

[theFOoL]

It works fine now. I'm looping starwars force awakens as I type....

 

[blobster21]

Sorry i didn't read properly. Good thing it's working as expected

 

[theFOoL]

Yeah I'm glad I switched to MINT. W10 kept BSOD on my On-board Graphics Driver. No heating issues what so ever

 

[theFOoL]

Ok i was wrong. After moving the PC to my room and turning it on, NO Wifi. So i tried you link and i get this and YES i have root E: Unable to locate package firmware-realtek

 

[theFOoL]

"This adapter and chipset has open source drivers with support for Linux Kernel 2.6.18 through 2.6.38 and Kernel 3.0.8 and higher. Driver is already in recent Linux kernel versions 2.6.39 and later (kernel option CONFIG_RTL8192CU)."

That's from your link. It "should" work out of the box. Could you run this command in terminal "lshw -class network" (without quotes) and post output here please? Oh, make sure to insert WiFi adapter first.​

Here
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*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 06
serial: 00:01:2e:4d:f5:06
size: 10Mbit/s
capacity: 1Gbit/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=half firmware=rtl8168e-3_0.0.4 03/27/12 latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=MII speed=10Mbit/s
resources: irq:25 ioport:e000(size=256) memory:d8004000-d8004fff memory:d8000000-d8003fff
*-network
description: Wireless interface
physical id: 1
bus info: usb@3:2.4
logical name: wlan1
serial: 94:10:3e:b2:d1:c7
capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=r8712u ip=192.168.1.244 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn

 

[FYFI13]

Here​

*-network
description: Wireless interface
physical id: 1
bus info: usb@3:2.4
logical name: wlan1
serial: 94:10:3e:b2:d1:c7
capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=r8712u ip=192.168.1.244 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn

It looks like your adapter is detected by the operating system, problem must be elsewhere. I will leave this to someone with a bit more experience.

EDIT. what happens if you type "wifi up" in terminal? Does it say "wifi = on"?

 

[theFOoL]

I'll have to get back to you on that as i switched to W7 for now