I have purchased a TP-Link TL-WN725N wireless adapter and require to install its device driver to get it working. After perusing the product information sheet, I see that my current version of the Linux Kernel is not supported.
The closest solution I found was contained in the README.md file in this github repo: https://github.com/lwfinger/rtl8188eu
I receive a build error when executing the make all command. I surmise this is because I do not have the correct Linux headers installed, as highlighted by the github's readme.md.
I tried to install the headers by typing the command:
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)
but am prompted with:
linux-headers-5.8.0-38-generic is already the newest version (5.8.0-38.43~20.04.1).
I don't know what to do to get it to work and would appreciate some assistance. Since it would probably be asked of me, I have included the details of the following two commands:
lsusb:
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 046d:c077 Logitech, Inc. M105 Optical Mouse
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 1a2c:0b2a China Resource Semico Co., Ltd USB Keyboard
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 009 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 006 Device 003: ID 0bda:8179 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8188EUS 802.11n Wireless Network Adapter
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
dmesg|grep RTL
[ 1.779449] r8169 0000:04:00.0 eth0: RTL8168evl/8111evl, 14:da:e9:71:be:c0, XID 2c9, IRQ 27
[ 30.768229] RTL8211E Gigabit Ethernet r8169-400:00: attached PHY driver [RTL8211E Gigabit Ethernet] (mii_bus:phy_addr=r8169-400:00, irq=IGNORE)
(A similar question was asked here, however, the OP didn't respond when asked for more information)
EDIT: The result of the following command
modinfo r8188eu | grep 8179
is:
> alias: usb:v07B8p8179d*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*in* alias:
> usb:v0BDAp8179d*dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*in*
The result of the command
sudo modprobe r8188eu && sudo dmesg | grep 8188[ 15.389611] r8188eu: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned. [ 15.391482] Chip Version Info: CHIP_8188E_Normal_Chip_TSMC_D_CUT_1T1R_RomVer(0) [ 15.453744] usbcore: registered new interface driver r8188eu [ 15.499169] r8188eu 6-1:1.0 wlxd03745aa684a: renamed from wlan0 [ 3987.294134] Chip Version Info: CHIP_8188E_Normal_Chip_TSMC_D_CUT_1T1R_RomVer(0) [ 3987.385305] r8188eu 6-1:1.0 wlxd03745aa684a: renamed from wlan0
is:
