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I am using HP Pavilion 15-n011TU and I have problems with wireless LAN driver. Unfortunately as per this link there is no Ubuntu driver for the device. So I have purchased a USB wifi dongle (Digisol DG-WN3150Nu). By default it doesn't detect in Ubuntu 12.04. Any idea about how to install the driver? and enable it using modprobe.

lsusb returned:

Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:8000 Intel Corp. 
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0461:4e22 Primax Electronics, Ltd 
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 05c8:0361 Cheng Uei Precision Industry Co., Ltd (Foxlink) 
Bus 002 Device 005: ID 0bda:8176 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8188CUS 802.11n WLAN
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 0e8d:763e MediaTek Inc. 
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub

I need to disable MediaTek adapter by default and load Digisol DG-WN3150Nu while booting, Thanks.

ATR
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Your USB wireless device works with the driver rtl8192cu in newer Ubuntu versions. Check to see if the driver in 12.04 covers your device:

sudo modprobe rtl8192cu

Does your wireless work now? Check the driver modalias:

modinfo rtl8192cu | grep 8176

If the installed driver does not cover your device, install a newer driver version. With a temporary working internet connection by ethernet, tethered or whatever means possible:

sudo apt-get install git linux-headers-generic build-essential dkms
git clone https://github.com/pvaret/rtl8192cu-fixes.git
sudo dkms add ./rtl8192cu-fixes
sudo dkms install 8192cu/1.10
sudo depmod -a
sudo cp ./rtl8192cu-fixes/blacklist-native-rtl8192.conf /etc/modprobe.d/

Reboot and tell us if it's working.

chili555
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