Download Tp Link Tl-wn725n Driver

[Jerica Shilt]

Inorder for anyone to provide you with assistance, you will need to post an inxi output here as the proper chipset for that adapter will need to be identified to find the driver. Sometimes manufacturers change the chipset for a particular model as well. Please read:

I posted the CPU information due to a direct request to post my inxi output. What instructions did I follow? After 5,000,000 you tube videos I finally found one that walked me through step by step the driver update and it finally worked.

Here is the lsusb info, and as you can see Bus003 Device002 it is there with the correct driver, now to just get it activated, I will check out the link you provided above, thank you.

the blacklist file is just a simple .conf file that you create and then reboot. If it does not work, you delete that .conf file and reboot and you are back to where you started. You might be able to disable the internal wifi in the UEFI/BIOS as well. Another possibility is that you need to disable MAC Address Randomization (Google Search), in addition to iwlwifi blacklist.

I recently installed Ubuntu 17.04 Desktop. I'm some what pleased with it, primarily because it is a free distro. But now I have found myself in the same boat I was in 30 years back, when I was teaching myself DOS.

I have installed Ubuntu Server on a separate machine just to tinker with and learn. This version of Ubuntu doesn't install a GUI. I have searched and found information on how to install the GUI using terminal commands. The problem is these commands depend on a Internet connection, and Ubuntu isn't configured to utilize my TP-Link USB WIFI adapter. I can't configure the WIFI because, like the GUI, I need the Internet to do so.

I also have a LINKSYS Wireless-G PCI adapter but I couldn't even get it to work in the first computer. I can't wire to the router because I'm piggy backing on my neighbors ISP via WIFI. I'm not sure I would have any better luck trying to get the ethernet NIC working.

The only option I can think of is, download driver and utility packages to the first computer and migrate them to the second. If this is possible it presents it's own problem. I wouldn't know which directory to place these files in.

I put Tp-Link back in PC #1 (w/Ubuntu GUI). Going to try and share Internet with PC #2 (w/Ubuntu terminal) via Linksys ethernet router. I have a lot of research to do. I'm going to put a pin in this issue, I have started a new project. Testing Solaris live DVD.

Going to Solaris for better hardware support is like going to Microsoft for better virus protection. Only Linux has an obsessive enough following to even partly keep pace with the junk consumer hardware shovel mill. Solaris, I would estimate your odds at zero.

Installing Solaris 11 from the 'live' DVD installs a great package manager on the GUI which allows very easy install/uninstall of hundreds of packages (perhaps some to assist wifi) BUT, as you say, you need an internet connection to download these packages.

I have searched TPLINK,s support site and best I can tell they don't offer any other driver for my device than windows and maybe mac.

I guess I could carry the box next door and wire it to the modem. I'm sure she wouldn't mind, but I hate to ask. I get the idea she wants to be more than neighbors :s

I will look for a device Solaris supports, but I have to tell you I have very little income. Three of the four best PC's I have, I salvaged from the waste management center. All three are Dell OPTIPLEX's 330. The fourth is my work horse, Dell DIMENSION 8200x86. w/XPsp3

As I said I'm test driving Solaris. I don't know what the best alternative to MS is. I Like Ubuntu, but it doesn't like the platform I put it on. I had WIFI Internet from the first post install reboot. It works great for a hour+-. but then It gets sluggish and get a fading screen issue. My first impression of Solaris is, it looks professional whereas Ubuntu has a freeware look. I hate the quick launch on the left side of the screen and the absence of a task bar.

$10 USB things like your TL-wn725n. The very cheapest consumer PCs and video cards. And such. They are rushed to production with whatever parts were handy. Revisions A, B, and C are liable to be totally different products with the same label. Sometimes they even share the same USB ID despite needing completely different drivers.

Linux does not support products as much as it supports chipsets. So adding support for these sometimes just means finding out what chipset it uses, and adding its USB ID to the appropriate driver so its recognized. But there's often minor, undocumented differences in cheap products which which make them unreliable with the generic driver. These undocumented differences are covered by the manufacturer's Windows driver, any other system has to discover them by detective work and trial-and-error.

This sometimes causes a peculiar form of bit-rot where, 10 years after the fact, Linux becomes the only operating system which can still use a certain product. Our garbage Belkin wifi cards are one such product, between revisions D, E, and F Belkin lost their own driver somehow.

FYI: I have three 64bit machines. My XP install is 32bit. I can't afford WIN10. WIN10 is probably more strict than XP regarding multiple installs. I'm tired of having to authenticate every install especially now that you can't do it online. I plan on using windowsXP and anyother OS I choose.

"Windows-like Linux", you mean a distro that works? If so I am disappointed, because I can't afford WIN10. It would be great If I could continue to use XP on the internet., but Like MS, Firefox has or is ending support for XP. I haven't checked out Safari or other browsers yet but I'm sure they will follow suit. Soon my XP box will only be useful for MS/FSIM Diablo LOD, and other DOS based software I have.

"If you want Windows -- use Windows." seems to be the angry Linux users motto LOL. I have seen other people say the same thing in other forums. They always get angry if someone compares Linux to Windows. It's very amusing! I am using Windows on two other PC's. If you don't like that don't reply to my post JERK! If you have no constructive advice why did you reply? Are you a troll? The forum suggest beginners are welcome here. I didn't see anything saying Windows users were unwelcome. I like Windows, don't let that upset you! I also like MAC, Hell I like anything that WORKS.

So tell me, how much do rich people such as yourself spend on WIFI devices? My $9 Tplink has worked great for two years, and my $19 15yo Linksys PCI WIFI still works great. No the problem isn't junk hardware it's junk freeware. You get what you pay for, and when something is free it isn't going to be all that great. But it's free! I downloaded Solaris 11 (CRAPWARE) for free. Oracle called today wanting to sell me support! I'll give you this car, but you'll have to pay me to tell you what's wrong with it LOL

By "any other system" I assume you mean Unix and Linux. Your own words describe a major issue with free OS's. Their PnP abilities are very limited. But that's fine, I cut my PC teeth on DOS 3 and later DOSSHELL back in the late 80's. So I feel confident using Linux commands in a terminal. It might take some time but I will succeed.

I have found the driver I want to try, r8088 something like that. I' can't remember, and I'm not looking at it at this moment. And I have spent 30+ hours trying to figure out how to install it because no one seems to know how to install a driver on a PC with no internet.

Only OS "which can still use a certain product"...Except for my TPLINK, LINKSYS WIRELESS G, VODOO VGA, S3TRIO VGA, PCI USB HOST, PCI SCSI DRV controller. Some of which are leftover from the WIN 3.1 days. All still work in XP.

Seriously, guard your tongue! Insulting or attacking people in these forums is highly deprecated and will lead to a ban before long.

Yes, beginners are welcome here as you can see in umpteen threads dealing with even stupid or repeated questions very patiently.

And, it's not about dealing with "rich people" but deploying sensible and stable hardware.

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