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Hardware - Support => Network => Topic started by: silverjock on October 25, 2019, 06:50:29 AM
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Complete novice and silver hair so spoon feeding only! My wife's laptop has been working ok on usb wifi till I updated today. I had to have a friend install drivers for this usb device but no idea how he did this. After update no wireless options appear to click on ( I assumed this would be automatic ) I can use terminal if spoon fed, 2 propriety drivers show when I check network connections from menu. how do I get back on line
thanks
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Can your friend not load the drivers for you again?
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Thanks for reply unfortunately friend was just visiting, does the driver have to be loaded again and if so how is this done?
The driver folder is on the desktop / the usb shows on ls usb/ the chip is rtl 8811cu / dkms is installed.
Would
sudo ./dkms -install.sh
sudo modprobe 8811cu
iw config
be the way to go? Found this between github and forum search but unsure if this is what I need
Thanks
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What is the github link?
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Hi thanks for responce
Is this what you need? https://github.com/brektrou/rtl8821CU
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Make sure you are inside the driver folder, then open a Terminal and do:
sudo ./dkms-install.sh
follow whatever it says. You may or may not need to reboot after to get wifi.
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Thanks
Further problem with laptop now, won't boot, stops at BusyBox which is gobildygook to me, so may be a while till I can try your fix.
Thanks anyway
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Managed to get boot up
tried above command in terminal but get
command not found
thanks
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Command not found means that you are not in the folder where the install file is. Have another look at my previous instructions and try again.
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sorry for my lack of ability. I thought i was in folder, When I click on folder the first opens as driver (another folder) click again opens with a blanked out folder symbol and rtl8821cu wifi linux etc listed acroos the top further click and a blank page appears. If I right click on the page with rtl8821cu etc I have options to open- open in new page-new widow-open terminal- or open as administrator are any of these the right one? or is the file required somewhere else and if so how do i find it Thanks
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Right click inside the folder that has the dkms-install.sh file and follow previous instructions.
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checked again the folders on desktop are empty!(properties = 4 items of18.8kbs!)
could they have been moved elsewhere and if so how do I find them,
or will i have to load driver files again from cd supplied with usb
thanks again
Later today I went ahead and reloaded the files from disc, extracted files/ and opened the folder/ located install.sh/
opened terminal entered the code as above but still get/ command not found!
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Might pay to get your friend to help at this stage.
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My thoughts too
but decided too give local repair shop a try as friend would just be at internet distance too!
Will post what was wrong here after visit if i can, in case it is helpful to someone else
Thanks for your patience .
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@Jerry Been following this. Interesting to me that firmware-realtek is still in Debian backports while I could not find the package in multiverse. Is it named something else now or is realtek support only on git?
TC
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If you see Realtek in Github, it is usually hacked drivers to work better than the original.
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