Realtek Rtl8188 Wifi Driver
Claribel Szwaja
The issue may be that there was never offical compatiblity for the TL-WN725N V1 with windows 10. The chipset maker may have made one but TP-Link never confrimed the V1 of this adapter would work with Windows 10. Also it has been seen that each time MS updates Windows 10 there is always a chance current drivers will not work or have issues. In situations like that the Chipset make in this case realtek will have to look at the cause and develop a solution for that chipset. Since we do not give offical support for Windows 10 the best solution would be to check with Realtek if this particualr chipset will recieve an update for the new Windows 10 build.
I have the same issue with a Lenovo IdeaCentre A720 all in one system. It has the Realtek RTL8188CUS WiFi card.It connects fine to my older router an Apple Extreme. It refuses to connect to my new Nighthawk Mesh WiFi 6 system. On the same desk as the Lenovo is a HP laptop that will connect without a problem. The satellite is less than 2 feet away from the computers.
So I recently purchased the Nighthawk RAX45 (AX4300 6 Stream Router) and I ran into the same issues that led me here. I couldn't connect my very old 2011 Asus laptop to the Nighthawk. I have the same model wifi adapter (Realtek RTL 8188CE). I recently got it to work by updating/installing one of the update files that was saved on my computer.
You will be greeted with this screen. I'm not sure if these options would be here for you. These files were available to me. From here, I selected the bottom option with "Realtek Semiconductor Corp." and then hit "Next."
(The Microsoft version of this driver update does not work with the router. I went back to try it. It could not find the signal so it's important to use the "REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORP" option if available.)
so I tried installing all the driver available on internet with name of rtl8188EUS or rtl8188EU but nothing worked. Either they give an error like above or they just don't work.I think it is because my kernel version is
I had a hard time installing the wireless driver for my debian. My debian was Sqeeze but soon after I realized Wheezy was the one to support my wireless adapter, realtek 8188CE,I upgraded to wheezy. Here is my sources.list file:
I followed the exact steps listed on the Debian wiki.At step 4, after I typed in iwconfig,there was no tag for wifi (shouldn't it be there?), I figured the wifi module was not loaded, but I didn't know how to check and add it
Never for any reason should be mixed repositories from Debian stable with testing branch. However you can add in your repositories backport repository and then you can get a newer kernel to work with RTL8188CE Realtek driver
I am installing windows 7 on an HPG56 laptop; it previously had Linux Mint on it and its wifi card worked fine. Now when I try to see the wifi card, I cannot. When I use device manager I see in Network Adapters that a Realtek driver is installed for the ethernet:
Does this driver (rtl8xxxu or rtl8192cu) support master mode?
Also, does rtl8192cufw_TMSC.bin has to be provided? Our wifi dongo contains the firmware already. Does the wifi driver need the firmware file to operate?
It seems you are new to nightmare of Realtek Linux drivers. Realtek drivers from mainline kernel usually are either broken or semi working like no AP mode or something like that. It would be the best to take driver sources directly from Realtek, but this is not possible since only some drivers are available while most are not. Linux developers seem totally not care about compatibility with older drivers, and this I think make players like Realtek stop supporting Linux as soon as they break driver compatibility with newer kernel sources. This is just my own opinion and how I see it after similar problem with different Realtek card.
You need to look for rtl8811 driver sources in GitHub. Not each of many forks will work. You not only need to find good one but also test it thoroughly since no one guaranties they fixed driver properly.
Thank you for your response. We are stuck with the vf50 and the Realtek, as they are in our current product. I have the driver source code from Realtek and was using it with our old Linux kernel (3.0). After upgrading to the newer Linux kernel (4.4), It seems it has Realtek RTL8192cu support out of the box, that was why I was trying to make it work.
Now it seems I need to use the driver from Realtek instead. I am new to Linux drivers. Do you have a short summary or any good source about integrating the Realtek driver into the Toradex Kernel 4.4? Thank you in advance.
as well as trying many other driver combinations (I also tried enabling host mode only). Still, I'm not able to detect any connected USB devices (nothing happens in lsusb or dmesg when devices are connected / disconnected). In U-boot I am able to detect usb devices using "usb start" and "usb info".
What about USB Flash drives, do those work in Linux? The Wifi dongles require building in some drivers and adding firmware images to the rootfs, so this will help indicate if the problem is with your device tree config.
Thanks for the reply. USB flash drives also do not work. My intuition is that the problem has to do with Petalinux trying to make it function as device / host / OTG rather than host only. I have tried disabling the OTG / device drivers in the kernel config but that didn't do it. I will compare the github project to my own and see if I can find any significant differences.
Ok, I gave this a try and still wasn't able to get it working. I tried adding the following to "project-spec/meta-user/recipes-bsp/device-tree/files/system-user.dtsi" which were present in the github petalinux project that you linked.
USB wifi drivers tend to require there to be firmware blobs installed into your rootfs at /lib/firmware. The drivers use these blobs to configure the proprietary SoC's in the wifi dongle. In your case, you need "/lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8192cufw_TMSC.bin" and/or "/lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8192cufw.bin" to be present.
You can find these files in the linux-firmware package, which can be installed from standard linux distros using apt-get, dnf, yum, etc., and then simply copy them to where they need to be on your rootfs. If you are using petalinux, you could build a simple app that copies the files into the rootfs during the build process, which might be most convenient in the long run. A third option is to find a yocto recipe out there for linux-firmware and just point your project towards it (UG1144 describes how to do this).
Thanks!! This did it (firmware files were already present in my host machine's /lib/firmware). I also had to enable wpa-supplicant and wpa-supplicant-cli in the rootfs in order to connect to the wireless network.
Thanks, the 8188 CUS version did resolve my issues as well. To Ash... to use the "wireless Network Utility" in your applications folder to setup the USB wifi device. After you do this, you can see the USB wifi in the network preference pane.
Thank you very much for your help! I dropped my laptop and managed to rip out the wireless adapter yesterday. I bought the Netgear WNA1000M today without reading the specifications... I managed to get it working for Lion OSX 10.7.5 following your instructions! Very straight forward. Downloaded the Realtek installation package, ran it, restarted the computer then opened the Wireless Network Utility to connect.
Hi Tim,
I have installed the driver you said. I can see the WLAN adaptor in my networks (inside system preferences), but how do I actually use it?
You say "Remember: the driver doesn't integrate into Apple's airport utility. So you'll have to run a separate client to set up the wireless network. It isn't pretty. But it works."
Can you tell me which client, where to get it for Mountain Lion.
Many thanks,
Diesel
Hello, I have tried to install different versions of the drivers on Mac OS 10.8 Mountain Lion but the Wireless Network Utility always crashes...Am I doing something wrong? What version of drivers could help me? Thank you.
Pio.
Hi there Pete. Have bought AWUS036H with the Realtek 8187L chipset. Apparently KisMAC works with this chipset. Havent yet received the little blighter in the post, but would you mind explaining how I configure a client to hook up with the Apha AWUS036H and which client you suggest? Or will KisMAC act as the client? I am running Apple mac 10.7. Will the above lot all work together?? Thanks for your thoughts.
I bought a TP-Link TL-WN725N V2 which uses the RTL8188EU chipset... You mentioned that the RTL8188CUS works (which is the chipset used in TP-Link TL-WN725N V1). I wonder if anyone here has found a MacOS X driver for RTL8188EU ? Even the Realtek website does not mention the existence of the RTL8188EU chipset... I found my information at -LINK_TL-WN725N_v2
I too have the TP-Link TL-WN725N V2. I have tried all sorts of the Realtek drivers now but none work as the Wireless Network Utility always crashes (or rather won't open). I have also tried the edimax drivers etc but all give the same problem. I am on Mac OS 10.8.4 so any help would be appreciated. The TP-Link TL-WN725N V2 works fine on a PC so it is a driver issue.
In hardware it shows as connect with device id relatek 8179.
I am trying to do the same thing. Late 2011 MBP reduced to a paperweight after 10.8.5 update and wont fix. Upgraded to 10.9, nothing.
Wiped and put clean version of 10.8 on it, nothing. Got it working a little bit, updated to 10.9. Worked for a bit and stopped again. Ahhh!
I have an old MacMini with PowerPC and 10.5.8. I try to use a TL-WN723N V3 USB WiFi Adapter, and followed instructions as per above reccomendation of one of the commenters: -tp-link-tl-wn723n-v3-tl-wn725n-v2-usb-wifi/, install worked, but when clicking Wireless Network Utility, message says: "You can't open the application "Wireless Network Utility" because is not supported on this architecture." That means that the driver/application is not for PowerPC? Thanks in advance for gsome help...
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