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Downloaded DLink DWA 131 wireless adapter not working on ubuntu 15.10 - Pilot's driver, but doesn't seem to work.

Here is my dkms: 

dkms status
bbswitch, 0.8, 4.8.0-42-generic, x86_64: installed
nvidia-340, 340.101, 4.8.0-42-generic, x86_64: installed
rtl8192eu, 4.4: added

Using Ubuntu 16.04.

$ lsusb
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 2357:0109  
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 058f:3820 Alcor Micro Corp. 
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 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 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 0c45:8603 Microdia 
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 1532:0007 Razer USA, Ltd DeathAdder Mouse
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

$ dkms status
bbswitch, 0.8, 4.8.0-42-generic, x86_64: installed
nvidia-340, 340.101, 4.8.0-42-generic, x86_64: installed
rtl8192eu, 1.0, 4.8.0-42-generic, x86_64: installed (WARNING! Diff between built and installed module!)

Edit: started using network manager instead of Wicd, now it works! thank you to pilot for all your help!

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It looks like you installed the rtl8192-dkms package from my (hanipouspilot) PPA. It did not build for the 4.8 kernel, because I did not patch it for the 4.8 kernel yet. I suggest running

sudo apt purge rtl8192eu-dkms
sudo apt install ppa-purge
sudo ppa-purge ppa:hanipouspilot/rtlwifi

and installing the driver from github as mentioned in another answer.

Run

sudo dkms remove rtl8192eu/1.0 --all
sudo dkms add ./rtl8192eu-linux-driver
sudo dkms install rtl8192eu/1.0
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